KYIV. UkraineGate . 13 . September . 2022 | Ukraine News.
Sweden announced the transfer to Ukraine of more than 500,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19. This was announced by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden, Ann Linde, on her Twitter page .
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“The Swedish government today decided to donate more than 500,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to Ukraine. Sweden’s donation is in response to Ukraine’s request last week for half a million doses,” she wrote.
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The Swedish government added that in this way, Ukraine will become one of the first countries in the world outside the European Union to receive a new, updated vaccine.
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The European Union’s regulatory body on Thursday approved two separate Covid-19 booster vaccines, updated for the Omicron variant and developed by Moderna and a team of Pfizer and BioNTech.
US health officials on Wednesday approved updated Covid-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech that specifically target the latest strains of the Omicron variant to launch a new booster vaccination campaign.
Source: Ukrgate
