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Ukraine’s Health Minister Maxim Stepanov said that the development of a Ukrainian vaccine against the COVID-19 coronavirus infection is a matter of national security.
Ukraine should produce its own vaccine against coronavirus infection, Health Minister Maxim Stepanov said on Facebook on April 3.
“Today, when there is a real war for vaccines in the world, when the governments of the countries impose bans on the export of lots of contracted and paid vaccines, there is only one way out: start producing ours,” the minister wrote.
He noted that Ukrainian pharmaceutical manufacturers are willing to do this, but “need guarantees that the state will buy from them.” Ukrainian companies will not be able to offer a price that competes with the price of a vaccine produced by large pharmaceutical manufacturers, the minister said.
“Yes, our vaccine may be more expensive, but I think we should do it. Because it is a matter of national security,” Stepanov added.
On April 30, on the air of the Hard with Vlaschenko program on Ukraine channel 24, Stepanov told TV presenter Natasha Vlaschenko that there is a possibility of producing a Ukrainian vaccine.
“There is a clear algorithm for what we have to do. We need to do [изменения] to the legislation, to issue a state order, to give clear guarantees to our producers that they will be a priority ”, said the minister.
On October 20, 2020, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky received the results of the preclinical tests of the “original Ukrainian vaccine candidate” against COVID-19 coronavirus infection. The Office of the President stated that “the candidate for the original Ukrainian vaccine is being created on the basis of a unique approach.”
One of the vaccine’s developers, Mikhail Favorov, said in October that it could be created in 9-12 months. The Minister of Health of Ukraine said that the cost of developing a vaccine could amount to 100-150 million UAH.
At the end of March 2021, Ukraine’s medical director, Deputy Minister of Health Viktor Lyashko, said that the Ministry of Health does not count on the creation of a national medicine. You don’t know how the concept will be finalized.
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