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Moderna COVID-19 vaccine supplies to resume after using already imported one – Liashko
KYIV. Aug 28 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Moderna’s coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine supplies to Ukraine for the first dose will resume after using the already imported amount of this vaccine, Health Minister of Ukraine Viktor Liashko has said.
"The Moderna vaccine was imported 2.2 million and its use was clearly distributed. Now we are delivering to the regions for the second dose. The imported vaccine is now being used for the second dose. Do not ask for it now for the first dose," he told journalists on Saturday.
Regarding the single-dose Janssen vaccine by Johnson&Johnson, which has already been registered in Ukraine, Liashko said that currently there is no supply of this vaccine to Ukraine, but "it may."
"Now in Ukraine there are more than 11 million doses of various vaccines, supplies are increasing. It will probably be inappropriate to import another vaccine product. Although we are working on it and, perhaps, will deliver it," he said.
Liashko said if a single-dose Janssen vaccine were used in Ukraine in the summer, the country would have reached the level of 5 million fully vaccinated citizens.
"When we said that by the end of the summer there would be 5 million fully vaccinated people, we understood: if it were not for Moderna with 2.2 million doses, but Janssen, there would be 5 million fully vaccinated people," he said.
