COVID-19 vaccination in Ukraine

[2][3]) On 7 January 2022 the Ministry of Health announced that 44.9% of the adult population had undergone a full course of vaccination.

[4] By 2022, the Ministry of Health plans to vaccinate 70% of the country's adult population, including 80% of the elderly.

[20] (According to the ministry's figures in late January 2022 49% of the adult population of Ukraine received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine.

[20]) On 15 June 2021, Razumkov Centre released a poll that stated 43% of Ukrainians did not intend to be vaccinated against coronavirus.

[11] In August 2021 56% of Ukrainians polled by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation did not plan to be vaccinated.

[21] The most chosen effective methods of preventing coronavirus disease (according to the August 2021 polled Ukrainians) were "washing your hands after leaving the street" (54%), "keeping distance from others" (42%), "being attentive to their well-being and the health of others" (39%), and "wearing a mask" (36%).

[21] On 13 September 2021 50% of the population of neighboring Poland was fully vaccinated, in Slovakia this number was 40%, in Turkey 47%, and in Moldova more than 21%.

[3] Early November 2021 34.5% of the population of neighboring Romania was fully vaccinated and for Bulgaria this number was 23.04%.

[9] According to the June 2021 planning of Health Minister Viktor Liashko, five million people would have to be fully vaccinated by the end of the summer.

[28] In fact only as late as September 16 this number was achieved[29] Around mid-June 2021, 1.4 million[26] first shots had been given, meaning 3.5% of the total population was partially vaccinated.

[28] According to an investigation by Lb.ua [uk], in June 2021 it was unclear at what date people could receive their second shot of the vaccine due to unstable and unpredictable delivery schedules.

[32] On 21 September 2021 Servant of the People faction member Mykhailo Radutskyi claimed that 50% of the MP's were unvaccinated.

[37] On 12 July 2021 3,489,332 vaccine doses had been administered, 2,311,690 Ukrainians had received their first injection, and 1,177,642 their second (and they were considered fully immunised).

[3] On 14 September 2021 Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal stated that all of the country's adult population should be vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of the year.

[41] On 17 September 2021 the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) stated it had (in Dnipro) dismantled an online influence operations campaign that operated 5,000 bots which (according to the SBU) "was commissioned by curators from the Russian Federation and was engaged in disrupting the national vaccination in Ukraine.

[43] On 14 September 2021 Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal stated that repeated vaccination against COVID-19 in Ukraine was likely to be done next year "because it's not clear which variants will appear and how the virus will behave.

"[41] A late September 2021 investigation by Radio Free Europe revealed that a mass market in fake COVID-19 vaccination certificates.

[45] Demand for vaccinations surged after new infections and deaths started to break records by late October 2021.

[48]) By 25 October (2021) 800 criminal cases for forged certificates or tests for coronavirus had been opened in Ukraine.

[49] Also on 25 October Ukrainian authorities reported a record daily high of 734 coronavirus-related deaths.

[5] Simultaneously the Ministry stated that it planned to by 2022 to vaccinate 70% of the country's adult population, including 80% of the elderly.

[8] On 19 September 2022 the Ministry of Health announced the offer of a third dose of the vaccine to everyone four months after their previous injection.

[57] On 4 November 2022 the Ministry of Health announced that all vaccinated children aged 12 to 17 were allowed to be booster-vaccinated against COVID-19.

[61] On 12 July German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated that Ukraine would receive 1.5 million doses of coronavirus vaccine from Germany.

[8] The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has set four different levels of epidemic danger:[69] Business owners can choose to use government proved "yellow" certificates for those who received a single dose of coronavirus vaccine and "green" certificates for those who have received all necessary vaccinations to enforce quarantine rules.

[70] The above-mentioned "colour zone" restrictions will not apply if all staff and all visitors, except those under 18, are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

[79] On 22 September 2021 Health Minister Viktor Liashko disclosed that his ministry was planning to approve a list of professions subject to mandatory vaccination (against coronavirus infection).

[80] It was decided that education workers had until November 2021 to get vaccinated against COVID-19; if they did not they would be suspended from work for a period of quarantine without pay.