KYIV – Ukraine’s Ministry of Health recently approved a plan to immunize the country’s population against COVID-19. The program, developed by experts from the Public Health Center of Ukraine together with experts from WHO and UNICEF, will provide Ukrainians with a vaccination funded by the state. The goal of the plan is to ensure that at least half of Ukraine’s population of about 42 million people receive a COVID-19 vaccine in 2021-2022.

“This plan will be flexible. It will be updated depending on the situation with COVID-19, updated data on vaccines, the availability of the vaccine itself,” said Ihor Kuzin, the director general of the Public Health Center.