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Lithuania donates 54,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to Ukraine

By Interfax-Ukraine.
A photo taken on Sept. 11, 2020 shows a laboratory technician handling capped vials as part of filling and packaging tests for the large-scale production and supply of the University of Oxford's COVID-19 vaccine candidate, AstraZeneca's AZD1222, conducted on a high-performance aseptic vial filling line at the Italian biologics' manufacturing facility of multinational corporation Catalent in Anagni, southeast of Rome, during the COVID-19 infection, caused by the novel coronavirus.
Photo by AFP

Ukraine on August 4 received 54,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine as humanitarian aid from the Lithuanian government, the Ministry of Health said on its website.

Lithuania is reportedly planning to provide Ukraine with 77,000 more doses of the vaccine.

This batch of vaccines will be used for re-vaccination, and will also be transferred to vaccination points.

The Ministry of Health notes that the fifth stage of the vaccination campaign against COVID-19 continues in Ukraine, during which all Ukrainians over the age of 18 can be vaccinated. Currently, four vaccines are being used: Comirnaty by Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, CoronaVac by Sinovac Biotech, and AstraZeneca (Covishield, SKBio).

As of August 5, Ukraine has already received almost 12 million doses of these vaccines.

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