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First, the Ministry of Health intends to vaccinate three groups of people
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Ukraine’s Health Minister Maxim Stepanov said three groups of people will be vaccinated first. Among them are the elderly, doctors, and people with comorbidities. Stepanov announced this on the air of the television channel Ukraine 24.
“In the first place, we will vaccinate a risk group, as a sign of health, that has concomitant diseases, and a risk group by age, are people over 65 years of age. In addition to a risk group based on a professional characteristic, they are health workers, “he said. Minister.
Today it became known that Ukraine is preparing to sign a Cooperation Agreement with COVAX on the supply of vaccines against the coronavirus. The volume of the first section will amount to almost 1 million 200 thousand doses.
Earlier, the Ministry of Health said how much the coronavirus vaccine will cost for Ukraine.
According to the country’s chief health doctor, Viktor Lyashko, a dose of the coronavirus vaccine for Ukraine will cost seven dollars. In this case, a complete vaccination consists of two doses of the drug.
Recall that the COVAX mechanism confirmed the information about the allocation of a vaccine against coronavirus disease to Ukraine free of charge for 20% of the population.
This means that around 4 million Ukrainians will be able to get vaccinated for free in the first half of 2021.
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