REUTERS
Since the launch of the campaign, 23,480 people have received their first shot of the Covishield vaccine.
The pace of COVID-19 vaccination had accelerated in Ukraine in the past 24 hours as of March 10, 2021, since 4,362 people got vaccinated against COVID-19 on Tuesday, March 9, alone, against 1,171 reported a day earlier.
Since the launch of a nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the country, 23,480 people have received their first shot of the Covishield vaccine, according to the Ukrainian Health Ministry's Coronavirus_info channel on Telegram.
Most vaccine shots so far have been administered in Donetsk region (3,134), while the least – in Sumy region (430).
Vaccination in Ukraine
On February 24, 2021, Ukraine launched a nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign. Doctors who treat COVID-19 patients, ambulance teams, laboratory personal involved in COVID-19 testing, residents and staff of nursing homes, as well as military personnel in the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) zone in Donbas are to be vaccinated at the first phase.
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Today, the vaccination campaign is underway in Ukraine with CoviShield (AstraZeneca), a recombinant vector vaccine produced under license at the Serum Institute of India.
A complete immunization requires two doses of the vaccine 28 days apart.