To overcome the COVID-19 pandemic, Ukraine must make extra efforts and resume vaccination at the pre-war level, Chief Sanitary Doctor, Deputy Minister of Health Igor Kuzin said at a briefing on Wednesday.

“Across the world and in Europe, vaccination rates are at a very high level, and this has allowed European countries not only to lift quarantine restrictions, but also come closer to the fact that the number of deaths due to COVID-19 is much less than in those countries.

Kuzin said that Ukraine is now dominated by the kraken coronavirus stamp, which is spreading much faster than other stamps. At the same time, against the backdrop of the need for Ukrainians to often stay in bomb shelters and the inability to comply with anti-epidemiological standards, there is a risk that more and more people will get sick..

In turn, the head of the National Technical Expert Group on Immunization Fedor Lapiy notes that over the past five weeks, an increase in the incidence of coronavirus has been recorded in Ukraine.. In particular, over the past week, 15,000. cases.

Lapiy stressed that the situation with COVID-19 vaccination in Ukraine is much worse than in countries that talk about ending the epidemic.

“We see that COVID-19 vaccines are working and the question is not that we will defeat the epidemic in 2023 or 2024. The question of the price we will pay is whether it will be a common cold that does not require hospitalization and does not take lives,” he said..

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