A woman holds a small bottle labbelled with a 'Vaccine Covid-19' sticker and a medical syringe in this illustration taken April 10, 2020. — Reuters picKYIV, Feb 22 — Ukraine has agreed to increase the number of Covid-19 vaccine doses with US maker Novavax to 15 million, Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said today.
“We have been confirmed that it is possible to supply additional 5 million doses of the vaccine... The total amount of Novavax vaccines that we expect in Ukraine is 15 million,” Stepanov said. Stepanov, who visited India this weekend, said on Sunday that the first batch of 500,000 doses AstraZeneca vaccine was on its way to Ukraine. Health ministry officials say the doses will arrive “any day now” but have given no exact date.
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