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Earlier, a number of Ukrainian media outlets claimed that the country s officials had secretly got a shot of a vaccine smuggled in from Israel.
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Minister of Health s Office of the State of Israel Yuli (Yoel) Edelstein says a coronavirus vaccine could not have been smuggled from Israel to Ukraine, refuting reports of any secret supplies of a Pfizer vaccine for Ukrainian officials.
Edelstein is convinced the vaccine has not been exported from Israel, the Ukrainian TSN TV news service wrote on January 7. Vaccines require deep freezing. It s impossible for anyone to transport them unnoticed, he said.
Earlier, a number of Ukrainian media outlets claimed that the country s officials had been secretly vaccinated with a drug smuggled in from Israel.
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Ukrainian and Israeli scientists will work together to quickly develop an Israeli vaccine against coronavirus (COVID-19), the press service of the Ukrainian Embassy in Israel said. On December 13, 2020, Ambassador of Ukraine to the State of Israel Yevhen Korniychuk met with Minister of Health of the State of Israel Yuli Edelstein. During the meeting, the parties discussed cooperation in the fight against the pandemic. Korniychuk and Edelstein reached an agreement on joint work of Israeli and Ukrainian scientists on the rapid production of Israeli vaccine, as well as the exchange of information on the effectiveness of the vaccine, the embassy said in a statement on the Facebook page.