Manufacturers of vaccines against coronavirus (COVID-19) disease have begun to “cancel debts” on contacts for supplies, Health Minister Maksym Stepanov has said.
“Now the situation has begun to level out and manufacturing companies have begun to cancel the debts they owe us,” he said at a briefing on Tuesday.
Stepanov said that “in the last ten days alone, we have received 1 million doses of vaccines from the Chinese company Sinovac, deliveries have begun under the COVAX initiative – 367,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine and 117,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine, and in total we expect 1.4 million doses under COVAX by the end of May.”
Stepanov also expressed hope for the resumption of vaccine supplies from India.
“We expect that the embargo on the export of vaccines in India will be lifted, and that debt of 1.5 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines that we have contracted will be closed to us,” he said.
Stepanov said that by the end of the second quarter, Ukraine expects first 500,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine, the main deliveries through this contact will begin in July, in particular, 4.5 million doses are expected in the third quarter.
