“Vaccination (with the Russian vaccine. -

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) started even earlier than planned.

The vaccine supplies for January-February-March have now been contracted.

We also see the request of the Belarusian side for a possible increase, ”RIA Novosti quotes him as saying at a meeting with Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko in Minsk.

Mezentsev noted that this issue needs to be worked out in terms of the workload of the Ministry of Health and the conditions for storing the vaccine.

Earlier, the head of the Ministry of Health of Belarus Dmitry Pinevich spoke about the first stage of vaccination of the population against COVID-19.