Health ministry pledges those wishing will be vaccinated by late 2021 / REUTERS
Ukrainian Deputy Health Minister and Chief Medical Officer Viktor Liashko says all those who wish will be vaccinated against COVID-19 by late 2021. I have calculated and I am telling you officially now: we will vaccinate all those who wish in 2021. With two doses. The main thing is that there are no disruptions, global cataclysms in the supply of vaccines. Five million shots may be administered per month – there is a method of cascades, he told Ukraina 24 TV channel.
According to Liashko, this time the vaccination will be different from any other campaigns.
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Zelensky wants the COVID-19 vaccination to start ASAP / Photo from UNIAN
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says a nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign should begin as soon as the regions receive the first batches of a vaccine.
He announced this at a meeting with Ukrainian Deputy Health Minister, Chief Medical Officer Viktor Liashko, according to the press service of the President s Office. Vaccination should begin as soon as possible, as soon as the regions receive the first batches. But it must be voluntary – no one needs to be forced, it is better to inform people in detail about the proper quality of the drug, he said.
A COVID-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer/BioNTech has been registered in Ukraine. The vaccination campaign was originally expected to start with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
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The plane carrying 500,000 doses landed at Boryspil International Airport.
Ukraine has received the first batch of AstraZeneca s COVID-19 vaccines manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, which supplies medicines to nearly 140 countries.
The batch of 500,000 doses has arrived at Boryspil International Airport on Tuesday, February 23.
Ukrainian Deputy Health Minister, Chief Medical Officer Viktor Liashko earlier named Ukrainian regions that would receive the vaccines immediately on the day of their arrival in Ukraine. These are the city of Kyiv, as well as Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Poltava, and Vinnytsia regions.
Coronavirus vaccine in Ukraine: Background
On February 22, Ukraine s Health Ministry certified Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine (Covishield) for emergency medical use.
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Earlier, Health Minister Maksym Stepanov announced that the first batch of 500,000 doses of the vaccine was already being transported from India to Ukraine.
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Ukrainian Deputy Health Minister Svitlana Shatalova has said Ukraine is expecting the arrival of the first batch of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine any day now. Any day now, the first batch of COVID-19 vaccine is expected to be delivered to Ukraine. Let me remind you that drugs from AstraZeneca have already arrived at their destination and are currently on a direct route to Ukraine. Vaccination will be launched according to the approved schedule, Shatalova told an online briefing on February 22.