Ukraine Inks Deal for Another 10Mln Pfizer Vaccine Doses - Health Minister Sat 01st May 2021 | 06:00 PM
KIEV (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 01st May, 2021) Ukraine signed a contract for additional 10 million doses of Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, expected to be shipped in 2021, the country s Health Minister Maxym Stepanov announced on Saturday. After long and difficult negotiations with Pfizer, we have reached an agreement on the shipment of additional 10 million doses. We signed the contract overnight. In total, we will receive 20 million (to be exact, 20.115 million) doses of the Pfizer vaccine during this Calendar year, Stepanov posted on Facebook.
According to the minister, the negotiations with the US vaccine manufacturer began last August and finally showed progress after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held personal talks with the company CEO Albert Bourla.
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2021-01-22 09:36:05 GMT2021-01-22 17:36:05(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
KIEV, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) Ukraine s Deputy Health Minister Svitlana Shatalova said the World Bank (WB) will loan Ukraine about 2.5 billion hryvnia (88.6 million U.S. dollars) to purchase COVID-19 vaccines, Interfax Ukraine news agency reported on Thursday.
The funds will be used for an Emergency response to COVID-19 and vaccination in Ukraine project. The negotiations on this matter have been held between the World Bank s Board of Executive Directors and the Ukrainian government since December 2020, the official told a briefing in Kiev on Thursday.
Ukrainian Health Minister Maxym Stepanov said Ukraine will receive vaccines in two ways. At least 8 million doses will be donated to the country under the global COVAX initiative. The rest of the vaccines will be purchased by Ukraine from manufacturers. The commercial sale of the COVID-19 vaccine will be possible in Ukraine this summer and the national vac