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Viktor Lyashko recalled that the COVAX mechanism has been created in the world
Ukraine will receive at least 8 million doses of the vaccine if the drug is to be administered once and 16 million doses if it is administered twice.
Ukraine is on the list of countries that will be offered a special price for the COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine when it appears. For your purchases in the 2021 budget, one billion UAH is provided. This was stated by the chief medical officer Viktor Lyashko in an interview with Hromadsky radio, published on Wednesday, November 11.
Lyashko recalled that the COVAX mechanism has been created in the world. In particular, a financial fund has been formed, which purchases a large number of vaccines to provide vaccines for at least 20% of the population of 180 countries in the world.
“Ukraine is also in this mechanism and was included in the list of 92 countries that will be offered a special price for the purchase of the vaccine,” he stressed.
Lyashko added that Ukraine will receive at least 8 million doses of the vaccine if the drug is to be administered once and 16 million doses if it is administered twice.
“We calculate if the price that was previously announced is offered, this is 1 billion hryvnia, which is provided in the budget for 2021 … We are doing everything possible to make the vaccine free for citizens of Ukraine,” added Lyashko .
According to him, professional risk groups will receive the vaccine first.
“We are talking about doctors, law enforcement agencies, teachers. In the future, these are people from the medical risk group, where the death rate after infection by the coronavirus disease is most recorded, it is about people older people, older people and in this group, people with concomitant chronic diseases “. , – said Lyashko.
It emerged yesterday that the WHO has high hopes for Pfizer’s COVID vaccine. WHO Director Tedros Adanom Ghebreyesus called it “very promising”.
It was also reported that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed to German Chancellor Angela Merkel with a request to assist in the supply of a coronavirus vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pfizer.
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