On Sunday, December 12, two new batches of CoronaVac vaccine against coronavirus infection (COVID-19) will be delivered to Ukraine, the press service of the pharmaceutical company Lekhim has said.
“The Lekhim Group of Companies informs that on Sunday, December 12, 2021, two deliveries of CoronaVac vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 [produced by Sinovac Life Science Co., Ltd.] will arrive in Ukraine,” the company’s website says.
It is noted that 2.447 million doses will arrive on Sunday.
“Estimated time of arrival is 12:00 – 2 million doses, and 19:20 – 447,000 doses,” the press service added.
It is also reported that the supply of the vaccine is carried out under a supplementary agreement to the agreement between Sinovac Life Science Co., Ltd. and PrJSC Lekhim.
The Lekhim Group of Companies plans to supply the first 500,000 doses of the Chinese vaccine against coronavirus (COVID-19) CoronaVac produced by Sinovac and purchased by the British agency Crown Agents at the expense of the national budget.
The company told Interfax-Ukraine on Thursday, the first delivery under this contract is expected on July 5.
In addition, the company said that on July 29, Lekhim carried out the last delivery of this vaccine under a contract with state-owned enterprise Medical Procurement of Ukraine.
As reported, Lekhim supplied 1.9 million doses of CoronaVac vaccine to Ukraine under a contract with the Health Ministry.
The contract with Crown Agents provides for the delivery of 7.7 million doses of this vaccine to the country.
Another batch of CoronaVac vaccines was delivered to Ukraine, Health Minister of Ukraine Maksym Stepanov has said.
“The next 500,000 doses of CoronaVac vaccine from Sinovac Biotech have just landed in Boryspil,” Stepanov said on his Facebook page.
According to him, a total of 1.9 million of this vaccine have been contracted in Ukraine, of which 1.215 million have already been received by the country.
