“Azerbaijani government conducted the fight against COVID very rapidly. In January after a year since the first case of coronavirus was detected in February 2020, vaccination was started over the country. Infrastructure, electronic base, new hospitals were established, the number of labs was increased,” said Head of the World Health Organization Azerbaijan Office Hande Harmanci, APA reports.
According to her, all of these is are not easy to establish in normal time, however, all of these were established during the pandemic: “In addition, the population in Azerbaijan was vaccinated earlier and more rather than many Western European countries. At the same time, rules that we called public responsibility, such as rules about masks, hand hygiene, keeping social distance were followed well. Over the past 15 days, the number of infections is almost the same. “