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The option of providing Ukraine with vaccines through a sharing mechanism at the level of the European Union is being considered.
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High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy / Vice-President of the European Commission Josep Borrell says that ways of providing Ukraine with vaccines against COVID-19 through the EU member states are being considered.
He announced this at a joint press conference with European Union Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Oliver Várhelyi and Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal after an EU-Ukraine Association Council meeting on February 11, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
Borrell pointed out to the EU s solidarity with the Ukrainian people during the coronavirus pandemic. And we are already helping Ukraine gain access to vaccines through COVAX and are
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Ukrainian Deputy Health Minister, Chief Medical Officer Viktor Liashko says that healthcare workers will be the first to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in Ukraine.
He announced this during the Right to Power talk show, according to the TV news service TSN. Who will get it [first]? These will definitely be healthcare workers. Because Ukraine has decided to start a vaccination campaign with healthcare workers to protect those people who are on the front line with the coronavirus from day one. I believe that any healthcare worker today is a hero and he or she could become the one who would get the first shot. And then we will not have to decide who deserves more or who deserves less, he said.
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Chief Medical Officer Viktor Liashko announced the launch of the campaign around February 15.
The first group to get vaccinated will be healthcare workers who contact COVID-19 patients in hospitals and the Joint Forces Operation zone in Donbas (367,000 people). They will be vaccinated February through April. The second group will be retirees who are 80 and older (1.9 million people), as well as general practitioners and other workers of the primary healthcare system (363,000 people). They will be vaccinated in April through June. The third group are seniors who are 70+ (2.9 million, June and July), security workers (640,000, July and August), people aged 65+ (2.3 million, August and September), education workers (1.4 million, September and October).The last group will be citizens who are 60+ (2.8 million, October and November) and other categories (1.7 million, November and December).
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Ukraine was among the first countries to apply for the vaccines in the first wave of their distribution.
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Ukrainian Deputy Health Minister, Chief Medical Officer Viktor Liashko has said Ukraine will receive 117,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine within the COVAX (the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility) in February.
Read alsoCOVID-19: Almost 4,700 new active cases reported as of Jan 30 As early as in February, Ukraine will receive 117,000 doses of the U.S.-made Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA vaccine, which will be immediately distributed to hospitals for vaccination of health workers who provide care to COVID-19 patients, he wrote on Facebook on January 30.