The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) with funds that will be used to purchase and deliver 14 ultra-low temperature freezers to Ukraine for storing Pfizer vaccines.

This was reported by the press service of the US Embassy..

The equipment is planned to be delivered to Ukraine in the very near future.

These special chambers allow simultaneous storage of up to 3 million doses of Pfizer vaccines, which allows meeting the urgent additional needs for vaccination after the discovery of a new variant of the Omicron virus in Ukraine..

It is reported that ten freezers will be installed in the warehouses of the State Enterprise " The remaining four will be transferred to Kharkiv, Dnipro, Lviv and Odessa.

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Back in early December, the United States donated an additional $ 1.2 million to WHO to provide an urgent response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine.. The total amount of assistance provided to Ukraine by USAID since the beginning of the pandemic has exceeded $ 50 million.

Earlier it was reported that the United States urged Ukraine to accelerate the pace of vaccination against coronavirus amid rising incidence and hospitalizations. Umid Sharapov, Senior Advisor to the Immunization Program at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Ukraine, called the current situation "

It was also reported that the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) delivered 2,930,300 doses of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine produced by Moderna to Ukraine, the press service of the Ministry of Health informs.. Ukraine received free vaccine under COVAX.