Over 17,000 Ukrainians vaccinated against COVID-19 since launch of campaign

Photo from UNIAN, by Viacheslav Ratynsky

Since the launch of a nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Ukraine, 17,037 people have received their first shot of the Covishield vaccine.

Read alsoMost Ukrainians back new lockdown if COVID-19 cases surge – pollSome 1,279 people got vaccinated against COVID-19 in Ukraine on Saturday, March 6, alone, according to the Ukrainian Health Ministry's Coronavirus_info channel on Telegram.

Number of vaccinations per region in the past day:

• 470 in Donetsk region (Ukrainian-controlled districts);
• 140 in Ternopil region;
• 120 in Luhansk region (Ukrainian-controlled districts);
• 110 in Kyiv region;
• 100 in Cherkasy region;
• 60 in Odesa region;
• 50 in Dnipropetrovsk region;
• 40 in Kirovohrad region;
• 40 in Lviv region;
• 30 in Zakarpattia region;
• 30 in Zaporizhia region;
• 30 in Rivne region;
• 30 in Chernihiv region;
• 20 in Kherson region; and
• 9 in Mykolaiv region.

The highest number of vaccine shots so far has been administered in Donetsk region (1,940).

Vaccination in Ukraine

• On February 24, 2021, Ukraine launched a nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign. An emergency room doctor in Cherkasy region was the first who got vaccinated.
• Ukraine uses the Covishield vaccine, which was developed by the University of Oxford in partnership with the British-Swedish company AstraZeneca. It is produced in India under a licensing agreement.
• Ukraine has received 500,000 doses of the vaccine so far.
• The vaccination campaign in Ukraine was originally expected to start with the use of a vaccine produced by Pfizer/BioNTech, which Ukraine was supposed to receive during the first wave of distribution under the global COVAX Facility. The supply of 117,000 doses of that vaccine to Ukraine has been booked.