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Moderna vaccine available to Ukrainians for second dose – Liashko
(Headline, paragraphs one, two of Auf 28 news item clarified)
KYIV. Aug 30 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine is available to Ukrainians for the second dose, Health Minister Viktor Liashko has said.
"Some 2.2 million doses of Moderna vaccine has beem imported and its use clearly distributed. Now we are delivering it for the second dose to the regions. The Moderna vaccine is still available to Ukrainians for the second dose. In addition, we are not talking about the next deliveries of this vaccine. It was originally reserved at the national warehouse. The required amount for the second dose, in accordance with the need for the second dose, the vaccine is delivered to the regions. Therefore, Moderna is not available for the first dose," he told reporters 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.
