“100 thousand doses of measles vaccine produced by the State Research Center“ Vector ”of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare will be given in the near future free of charge to Kyrgyzstan with the support of the Russian government. In early 2019, such assistance was provided to Belarus, ”RIA Novosti quoted her as saying.
According to her, the situation with measles incidence in Russia is under control. For 9 months of 2019, the incidence was 27.5 cases per million people.
Earlier, the state sanitary doctor of Kazakhstan, Zhanbarbek Bekshin, said that from November 2018 to September 2019, 19 people died from measles in the country.
In August, the Polish National Institute of Public Health announced that the number of people suffering from measles has increased significantly.