Sputnik: Does Everyone in the Kyrgyz Republic need to be vaccinated against COVID? Onishchenko's Opinion

The former Chief Sanitary Doctor of Russia said that vaccination in Kyrgyzstan should start with at-risk groups.

BISHKEK, January 11 - Sputnik. All Kyrgyzstanis do not need to be vaccinated against COVID, said Gennady Onishchenko, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, State Duma Deputy, ex-Head of Rospotrebnadzor.

He spoke at a briefing at the Sputnik press centre.

“In Russia, we started with risk groups. The Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan will study all the experience, and I am sure that it will act correctly and accurately. I do not see the need to carry out total vaccination, but risk groups for medical and professional reasons need to be vaccinated first of all,” - advised Onishchenko.

The expert also answered those who doubted that Russia had developed a vaccine against coronavirus.

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On September 4, 2020, in Crimea, Secretary General of the Eurasian Peoples' Assembly Andrei Belyaninov and Chairman of the Coordinating Council of the “Let's Do Together” Movement Gennady Onishchenko signed an agreement between their organizations.