The vaccination scheme will change in Ukraine

CoviShield doses will now be given at three-month intervals instead of the 28 days previously thought.

In Ukraine, the COVID vaccination schedule with the drug CoviShield will be changed. This was stated by Fyodor Lapiy, member of the National Technical Group of Experts on Immunization (STGEI), reports LIGA.net on Tuesday, March 16.

Now, instead of the initial 28 days, there will be a three-month interval between doses to achieve the maximum level of immune protection.

Discussion on this topic began in February, after the results of a large-scale study on the effectiveness of the vaccine in Great Britain were published in The Lancet. According to the results of the study, the efficacy of protecting those vaccinated against mild / moderate symptoms of COVID after a dose (22 to 90 days after injection) is approximately 76%. Those who received a second injection 12 weeks later were 81.3% effective. If the second dose was given less than 6 weeks later, only 55.1%. There were no COVID-19 hospitalizations in the vaccinated group after the first three-week period.

“It was decided to vaccinate as much as possible with one dose of asters. This will give us the opportunity to apply 250,000 doses, which were reserved for the second dose (with a 28-day plan, – ed.),” Lapiy said, adding that there are no changes that will affect other coronavirus vaccines that Ukraine will receive.

Let us remember that in Ukraine almost 9 thousand people were vaccinated against COVID per day. The majority of people per day (690) were vaccinated in the Poltava region, as well as in the Kiev and Donetsk regions, 600 each.

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