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Under COVAX, Ukraine will receive 1.78 million doses of the Oxford / AstraZeneca vaccine and 117,000 doses of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine free of charge, the United Nations Children’s Fund said.
On March 2, the global international initiative COVAX unveiled a plan for the first deliveries of coronavirus vaccines. They will be delivered to different countries until May. This was announced by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), which deals with logistics.
In the first phase, 142 countries that have joined this initiative will receive vaccines. By May, 237 million doses of the Oxford / AstraZeneca vaccine and 1.2 million doses of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine will be distributed.
Under COVAX, Ukraine will receive 1.78 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine and 117 thousand doses of the Pfizer vaccine free of charge, according to the published list (.pdf).
COVAX is the global mechanism to ensure the availability of COVID-19 vaccines. As reported on the UN website, UNICEF is leading the procurement and supply of vaccines for the coronavirus. As part of this initiative, it is planned to distribute 2 billion doses of vaccines worldwide in 2021.
The supply of the COVAX vaccine has already started. Last week, Ghana was the first in the world to receive vaccines through this mechanism. Also, within COVAX drugs against the coronavirus have already been delivered to India and the Ivory Coast.
February 23 to Ukraine the first batch of vaccine arrived of the coronavirus. 500,000 doses of the Oxford / AstraZeneca (Covishield) vaccine were brought from India. Began to surrender to the regions of Ukraine. on the morning of February 24.
Furthermore, it was expected that until the end of February set the first 700 thousand doses vaccines from the Chinese company Sinovac Biotech, but this did not happen. Health Minister Maxim Stepanov said on March 1 that the vaccine must be delivered to Ukraine before March 6… There is also the possibility that the vaccine supply from China can be postponed until early April… In total, Ukraine will buy from a Chinese company. 1.9 million doses of this vaccine.
Ukraine will also receive 15 million doses of the Novavax vaccine, which will begin shipping in July.
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