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Contraindications to coronavirus vaccination with Covishield include high fever, hypersensitivity to active ingredients, blood clotting disorders and more, said Ukraine’s Medical Director Viktor Lyashko.
In a briefing on March 5, Ukraine’s chief medical officer, Viktor Lyashko, called contraindications to vaccination with Covishield. The correspondent for the “GORDON” edition reports on this.
“The instruction for the drug Covishield / AstraZeneca provides for the following contraindications: 1) hypersensitivity to the active ingredient of the vaccine, active ingredients are indicated in the instructions; 2) concomitant diseases that are accompanied by a significant increase in temperature, in particular – fever. Here I would like to emphasize that a slight rise in temperature or a cold are not contraindications for vaccination. During this period, vaccinations can be performed, but after consultation with a doctor. The following contraindications are thrombocytopenia or blood clotting disorders Vaccination of immunosuppressed people is also contraindicated, “Lyashko said.
He added that in these specific cases, an additional consultation with a doctor is needed and it is he who decides on the convenience and safety of vaccination against COVID-19.
Two coronavirus vaccines have been registered in Ukraine: Oxford / AstraZeneca (Covishield) and Pfizer / BioNTech.
Since February 24, Ukrainians have been vaccinated with the Covishield vaccine that arrived from India. On February 25, vaccinations began in all regions. On the morning of March 5, more than 12 thousand vaccinations were carried out in the country.
According to calendar plan By 2021, healthcare workers working with COVID-19 patients are the first to receive free vaccinations, and Joint Forces military operations… Until November, they also want to vaccinate the rest of the doctors, workers in the fields of state security and education, as well as people over 60 years of age. During 2021-2022 50% of Ukraine’s population (20 million) want to get vaccinated.
Ukraine plans to receive, under the COVAX program, 117 thousand doses of the vaccine from Pfizer (UNICEF said it would be delivered to Ukraine in late February – early March) and 2.2 to 3.7 million doses of the vaccine produced. by AstraZeneca. Ukraine is expected to receive 15 million doses of the Novavax vaccine, and deliveries will begin in July.
In addition, the first 700,000 doses of vaccine from the Chinese company Sinovac Biotech were expected to be delivered at the end of February, but this did not happen. Stepanov said on March 1 that the vaccine should be delivered to Ukraine by March 6. There is also the possibility that the supply of the Chinese vaccine will be postponed until early April. In total, Ukraine will buy 1.9 million doses of this vaccine from a Chinese company.
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