KYIV. UkraineGate . 20 . September . 2022 | Health.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) delivered 400,000 doses of the mRNA vaccine against COVID-19 Comirnaty produced by Pfizer-BioNTech to Ukraine within the framework of the COVAX international initiative. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Health and Protection .
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The Ministry of Health emphasized that the peculiarity of this batch of the Comirnaty/Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is that it does not need to be diluted with saline. It is immediately ready for use, the vaccine only needs to be thawed before injection. This simplifies the work of medical professionals.
The first batch of 500,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty vaccine was delivered to Ukraine on July 23, 2022. Also, on August 4, UNICEF delivered 100,000 doses of the Janssen vaccine (Jcovden) within COVAX.
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“Together with international partners, we continue to deliver vaccines against COVID-19 to Ukraine. As the autumn-winter period approaches, it is especially important to protect yourself from the coronavirus disease, because as the experience of past years shows, the incidence increases sharply at this time,” said the Deputy Minister of Health I and the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of Ukraine Ihor Kuzin.
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Comirnaty from Pfizer-BioNTech is an mRNA vaccine containing matrix ribonucleic acid (mRNA) molecules that encode the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus envelope. After the vaccine is administered, this mRNA enters the cells of the human body and provides them with a kind of “instruction” on how to create this protein. The immune system recognizes that the protein does not belong to a person and produces antibodies against it. This is how the body learns how to protect itself in the event of an encounter with a real virus.
The vaccine is approved for emergency use by the World Health Organization.
In Ukraine, the Comirnaty vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech was registered on February 22, 2021.
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In Ukraine , the second booster dose of the vaccine against COVID-19 was allowed for all those willing, the vaccination schemes were updated, the first booster was allowed to be given earlier than before, as well as the vaccination of children from 5 years of age.
Source: Ukrgate
