The Ministry of Health claims that everyone will receive the second dose of the vaccine
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In Ukraine, within the framework of the COVAX initiative, 170 thousand doses of SKBio vaccine, which is produced in South Korea under the license of AstraZeneca, will arrive in May.
The Ukrainians who took the first dose of the Covishield vaccine will receive the second dose on time, despite the fact that India has suspended supplies of the vaccine abroad. This was announced on Thursday, March 25, by Deputy Minister of Health Viktor Lyashko. TSN.
“Everyone who received the first dose of Covishield vaccine will also receive the second dose, which is made on this platform. We are currently using 500 thousand doses of this vaccine for the first vaccine. The national technical expert group, taking into account the recommendations from the UK, Germany, France, also recommended to the Ministry of Health transfer the second dose from four weeks to 12 weeks. Therefore, we have three months in stock to supply the next batch of vaccine, “Lyashko explained.
He also noted that 170 thousand doses of SKBio vaccine, which is produced in South Korea under the license of AstraZeneca, will arrive in Ukraine within the framework of the COVAX initiative in May.
“I would like to emphasize that the vaccine from AstraZeneca, no matter what platform it is produced on: it is on a European site, or in India, or in Korea, it can be combined for both the first and the second vaccination. therefore, we are expecting the next delivery of the vaccine, “explained the chief state sanitary doctor of Ukraine.
As previously reported, Chinese COVID vaccine CoronaVac delivered to Ukraine… The plane with the first batch of 200 thousand doses landed in Borispol.
Also Korrespondent.net wrote that in the European Union 18 million people received two doses of COVID vaccine… The EU has received 88 million doses of coronavirus vaccine since December 27.
As a reminder, Pfizer explained why is Ukraine still without a vaccine… The fact is that other countries were negotiating supplies in the first half of last summer and therefore now have vaccines. It was noted that the government of Ukraine should also have done this earlier.
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