According to Stepanov, vaccination is the best way to overcome COVID-19.
Ukrainian Health Minister Maksym Stepanov has said Ukraine expects to get the first doses of vaccines approved by COVAX, the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility, in March 2021.
"After the creation of COVAX [a global initiative created on the platform of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) to accelerate the development, production and ensure equal access to tests, treatment and vaccines against COVID-19], Ukraine immediately joined this initiative to get the proper number of vaccine [doses]," he said this during an online briefing on Thursday, an UNIAN correspondent reported.
"As a result of negotiations, we agreed we would receive 8 million doses as part of this initiative, and we have almost completed the signing of all documents. Relevant documents were filed, and we received approval of this application," the minister said.
Stepanov said, according to the COVAX initiative, "these 8 million doses will be shipped from the end of the first quarter of next year – we expect to get them by the end of the first half of 2021. They will be supplied in corresponding tranches. Thus, we may provide appropriate vaccination for at least 4 million citizens. Each person will get two out of 8 million shots."
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