In Ukraine, 20 outbreaks of infectious diseases were registered in the first quarter of this year, head of the department for organizing epidemiological surveillance at the Public Health Center (PHC) Oksana Koshalko said on Thursday at a briefing on routine vaccinations.
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Since the launch of a nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Ukraine, 19,118 people have received their first shot of the Covishield vaccine.
Some 3,277 people got vaccinated against COVID-19 in Ukraine on Friday, March 5, alone, according to the Ukrainian Health Ministry s Coronavirus info channel on Telegram.
Most vaccine shots so far have been administered in Donetsk region (2,474).
Read alsoCOVID-19 myths: Ukraine gov t debunks fake stories compromising vaccinationIn turn, chief of the National Technical Group on Immunization Fedir Lapiy has said vaccination is proceeding at a slow pace due to the low number of vaccination teams.
According to him, more instructors are being trained to teach medics how to properly administer Covishield jabs, as reported by the RBC Ukraine news agency.
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Chairperson of the National Technical Group on Immunization Fedir Lapiy has said the situation with COVID-19 may improve in the summer of 2021. We may expect an improvement in the situation with COVID-19 in summer. We saw this in the summer of 2020. But, according to WHO forecasts, the acute phase of the pandemic will last until the end of 2021. But this does not mean that quarantine curbs will not be eased and life will not get back into its more regular rhythm, he told Ukraine 24 TV channel. Immunity will be formed by part of the world s population via the disease, but herd immunity is a very distant thing. Part of the population will be vaccinated and thus receive immunity. That is, when we say that COVID-19 will become a seasonal infection, another year must pass, i.e. we are talking about the acute phase of the pandemic until the end of 2021, the expert added.