The Ministry of Health will expand the list of contraindications for vaccination

The Ministry of Health will prepare an expanded list of contraindications for vaccination against covid-19 by mid-December , Izvestia reports, citing sources close to the healthcare system.

According to the newspaper, now the document is being developed at the level of the ministry, the draft has also been sent to Rospotrebnadzor. What diseases will be included in the updated list has not yet been reported.

The Ministry of Health is discussing the option according to which the list of contraindications will become part of the temporary recommendations for vaccination against CORONAVIRUS.

The ministry, in response to a newspaper request to clarify which diseases would be included in the updated list, said that "the list of grounds for medical exemptions correlates with the list of contraindications to vaccination prescribed in the instructions for each drug." For example, in the recommendations of the Ministry of Health, issued in August, it is noted that EpiVacCorona is contraindicated in patients with malignant blood diseases and neoplasms, and CoviVac is contraindicated in people over 60 years of age.