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The European Union (EU) and WHO have delivered 30 medical refrigerators for vaccine storage to the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Armenia to ensure that COVID-19 vaccines are adequately stored all over the country. The refrigerators, which arrived on 27 August 2021, are designed to store vaccines at a stable temperature to ensure they remain safe and effective.

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