Ukrainian Deputy Health Minister, Chief Medical Officer Viktor Liashko has said the U.S.-based Pfizer company will soon submit documents for the registration of a vaccine against COVID-19 in Ukraine. The COVID-19 vaccination campaign is to start in Ukraine in February.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olha Stefanishyna says several European countries have agreed to sell part of their surplus COVID-19 vaccines to Ukraine. The government is completing consultations on their redistribution.
Ukrainian Deputy Health Minister, Chief Medical Officer Viktor Liashko says Ukrainian citizens residing in Russia-occupied parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and Crimea will be able to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in Ukraine for free. The vaccination will be conducted on a voluntary basis.
Commercial COVID-19 vaccine may appear in Ukraine no earlier than summer / REUTERS
Ukrainian Health Minister Maksym Stepanov says the ministry does not regulate shipments of a COVID-19 vaccine onto the commercial market, however, he expects it may become commercially available no earlier than summer. Communicating, in particular, with vaccine producers and knowing how countries impose curbs on the commercial market, restricting exports, it seems to me this will not happen earlier than summer, he said during a morning TV show Snidanok z 1+1 on February 2, 2021.
According to Stepanov, the price of a COVID vaccine will vary depending on a producer. The quotations we have received regarding vaccines started at US$7 per dose, and ended at over US$33, the minister added.
Ukraine to get first batch of COVID-19 vaccines in two weeks / REUTERS
Ukrainian Deputy Health Minister for European Integration Ihor Ivashchenko says Ukraine will receive the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines in two weeks. Ukraine will launch the vaccination campaign in February. Therefore, we will have vaccines in two weeks. Our country has been included in the list of countries that will receive COVID-19 vaccines from the global COVAX Facility in the first rounds of [vaccine] distribution, he said at a briefing on Monday, an UNIAN correspondent reported. The delivery of these vaccines to Ukraine will begin in two weeks, he added.