Ukraine's plan to roll out a Chinese-made coronavirus vaccine from next month faces possible delay because of regulatory hold-ups, according to a letter written by the importer, in a further risk to the country's slow-moving vaccination programme.
UPDATE 1-Ukraine sanctions TV channels to counter Russian propaganda Reuters 2/3/2021 By Pavel Polityuk and Ilya Zhegulev Kremlin criticises sanctions imposed on TV channels Moscow and Kyiv at loggerheads since Crimea annexation U.S. backs efforts to counter Russian influence (Adds comment by Medvedchuk, U.S. embassy and Kremlin) By Pavel Polityuk and Ilya Zhegulev KYIV, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has imposed sanctions on several opposition-supporting television and media companies his government accuses of being financed by Moscow and a Russian-leaning politician. A presidential decree, published late on Tuesday, said special economic and other restrictive measures would be imposed against Taras Kozak, a lawmaker from the Opposition Platform For Life faction, and eight media and TV companies. The decree did not explain the decision. Kozak is the listed owner of the three TV channels covered and Ukrain
Ukraine will receive 117,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine in February Reuters 1/30/2021
By Ilya Zhegulev
KIEV, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Ukraine will receive 117,000 doses of American-made Pfizer-BioNTech m-RNA vaccine in February within the framework of the COVAX programme, Viktor Lyashko, Ukraine’s deputy health minister, said.
According to Lyashko, also Ukraine’s chief sanitary doctor, Ukraine will also receive between 2.2 to 3.7 million doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine in the first half of 2021.
Manufactured in the United States, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will be immediately distributed to vaccinate employees of hospitals that provide care to patients with COVID, he said. In parallel, during the first half of the year, starting from February, we will be able to receive between 2.2 and 3.7 million doses of AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccine for the next phases of the campaign, Lyashko said on his Facebook page.
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FILE PHOTO: A medical worker takes a box of Sinovac s vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) from a refrigerator at a community health centre in Qingdao, Shandong province, China January 5, 2021. China Daily via REUTERS
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian pharmaceutical company Lekhim hopes to register China’s Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine in early February and to deliver 5 million doses in Ukraine in the first half of 2021, the head of its supervisory board said on Wednesday.
Lekhim has signed an agreement with China’s leading vaccine manufacturer, Sinovac Biotech, but it must obtain state registration in Ukraine before starting to make deliveries.
Ukraine will propose sending 1,500 police officers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to patrol the conflict zone in the east of the country in a new peace initiative, two sources told Reuters on Friday.