VaccinationinUkraine

Wednesday, January 19

15M Ukrainians received the first dose of the Covid vaccine. More than 15M people have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine in Ukraine, announced the Ministry of Health. Since the beginning of the vaccination campaign in Ukraine, 15,220,924 peo...

Tuesday, December 28

6.5 million fully vaccinated Ukrainians will receive UAH 1,000. President Zelensky’s program for everyone who has been vaccinated with two doses of the vaccine can receive UAH 1,000 ($36) from the state through registration in the “Diia” service....

Thursday, October 7

Employers cannot fire an employee who is not vaccinated against COVID-19. Speaking with Interfax, Iryna Shaposhnikova of Asters said the vaccination against COVID-19 is voluntary. At the same time, Shaposhnikova said that the law provides that employees of...

Tuesday, September 21

The Chief Sanitary Doctor of Ukraine, Ihor Kuzin, announced that more than 98% of Ukrainians who were hospitalized with coronavirus over the last three months were not vaccinated. “According to the e-system of healthcare, over the last three months, almost everyone who ended up at hospital due to complications from Covid-19 in Ukraine has not been vaccinated yet. If you w...

Monday, August 30

Health Minister says about 9M doses of COVID-19 vaccine are available in the country. In total, 18.5 million doses have been delivered the beginning of the vaccination campaign. Viktor Liashko urged people to be vaccinated as the onset of colder we...

Wednesday, August 4

After a slow start, Ukraine’s coronavirus vaccination campaign is now one of the fastest in Europe, Yuriy Hanychenko, head of the Kyis School of Economic Center for Health Care Economics, said yesterday in an online briefing on Covid-19. “Every week, Ukraine is vaccinating 1.3% of the population,” h...

With 5 million more vaccines arriving in August, health authorities plan to administer 50% more shots this month than last, Health Minister Viktor Liashko writes on Facebook. With a Delta virus epidemic expected to start in Ukraine by the end of August, the vaccination campaign is a race against time.

Dnipro will provide free metro and tramway passes to all residents who are fully vaccinated, Mayor Boris Filatov wrote Monday on Facebook. In addition, all city employees must be vaccinated – or undergo weekly tests. He wrote: “Now all my subordinates are obliged to be vaccinated, and if they...

Tuesday, August 3

Ukrainians with an international vaccination certificate attesting to two shots of AstraZeneca, Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines can now travel to 23 European countries: France, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Finland, Italy, Romania, Greece, Bulgaria, Austria, Serbia, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovakia, Switzerland, Moldova, Turkey, Sloveni...

Thursday, July 29

By the end of this year, Ukraine expects to receive 47 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, Prime Minister Shmygal told the Cabinet yesterday. “This amount of vaccine will be sufficient to fulfill the task of fully vaccinating most Ukrainian adults in 2021,” he said. About 30 million adults ...

Thursday, July 22

By September, Ukraine expects to receive 13 million more Covid-19 vaccine doses, Prime Minister Shmygal told a cabinet meeting yesterday. This would be enough to fully vaccinate 6.5 million people, about 20% of Ukraine’s adults. To date, 1.5 million Ukrainians have been fully vacc...

Thursday, May 20

A domestic ‘vaccination passport’ – for entrance to schools, shopping centers, restaurants, theaters and gyms – would be supported by 27% of Ukrainians and opposed by 34%, according to a survey by Research & Branding Group conducted during the last week of April. Support grows with the age of respondents. For foreign travel, 44% of the 1,804 respondents see it as ju...

Tuesday, May 4

“Ukraine received too little of the promised vaccines, and I reminded everyone that equality is about concrete support when it is most needed. The pandemic began more than a year ago. And for seven years Ukraine has remained a real, not a metaphorical outpost of Europe. War takes our people, eats up our economy, and ravages our Ukrainian ter...

Thursday, April 1

To get out of the pandemic, Ukraine needs to vaccinate 70% of its population, create herd immunity, and create a system of “COVID-19 vaccine passports,” President Zelenskiy said on Monday. The next day, his Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said on Ukraina 24 TV: “If there is an appropriate amount of vaccines, we will be able to vaccinate up to 5 millio...

Wednesday, March 10

Stepanov yesterday berated the vaccination program he leads. Stepanov yesterday berated the vaccination program he leads. In the two weeks since 500,000 vaccines arrived from India, 20,000 people have been vaccinated and 190,000 are on waiting lists. “I’m not s...

The Health Ministry yesterday approved the use in Ukraine, Sinovac, the Chinese manufactured COVID-19 vaccine. The Health Ministry yesterday approved the use in Ukraine, Sinovac, the Chinese manufactured COVID-19 vaccine. Next week, 1.9 million doses are due to arrive in Ukraine.

Inflation spiked up to 7.5% yoy in February, a jump from the 6.1% yoy increase in January Inflation spiked up to 7.5% yoy in February, a jump from the 6.1% yoy increase in January, reported the State Statistics Service. Last month, the biggest factor was a 45% yoy increase in price of natu...

Adamant Capital last night wrote of the inflation spike: “One of the reasons for this may be the sharp YoY increase in the money supply. Despite the fact that the NBU has already increased the key rate by 50bps to 6.5%, we expect the CPI to accelerate furth...

The Finance Ministry managed to keep lowering rates for short term government bonds at yesterday’s weekly auction The Finance Ministry managed to keep lowering rates for short term government bonds at yesterday’s weekly auction, the Ministry reported on Facebook. The all-hryvnia auction yielded the equivalent of ...

The Rada will soon vote on the final passage of the “Google” tax – a tax that would impose a 20% VAT tax on provision of Internet services by foreign companies to residents of Ukraine The Rada will soon vote on the final passage of the “Google” tax – a tax that would impose a 20% VAT tax on provision of Internet services by foreign companies to residents of Ukraine. The law, which ...

Services that would be taxed include: Services that would be taxed include: sale of images or texts, e-books; sale of audio, video, games, gambling; providing paid access to electronic resources; provision of cloud technologies for data p...

Last week’s US entry ban on Ihor Kolomoisky and his immediate family “is the beginning,” Last week’s US entry ban on Ihor Kolomoisky and his immediate family “is the beginning,” Iuliia Mendel, spokeswoman for President Zelenskiy, said in an interview posted yesterday on the YouTube channe...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will address the fourth Ukrainian-German Economic Forum German Chancellor Angela Merkel will address the fourth Ukrainian-German Economic Forum, an investment and trade conference that will take place on line on Friday, March 19. According to Ukraine’s Emb...

Kyiv plans to receive 5 to 7 container trains a month from China this year, which is double last year’s rate, reported Ukrzaliznytsia. Kyiv plans to receive 5 to 7 container trains a month from China this year, which is double last year’s rate, reported Ukrzaliznytsia. The trains take about 15 days to travel from China and are unload...

Poland’s PCC Intermodal S.A. plans to triple container trains between Poland and Ukraine, to three per week this year Poland’s PCC Intermodal S.A. plans to triple container trains between Poland and Ukraine, to three per week this year, according to the company’s website. Starting last year, the company picks up and ...

Ukraine should invest in achieving universal fluency in English among young people, Ukraine should invest in achieving universal fluency in English among young people, Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, said yesterday at a “Ukraine 30” forum on c...

The sale of Ukrposhta’s iconic postwar headquarters at 22 Kreschatyk Street, Kyiv will take two years The sale of Ukrposhta’s iconic postwar headquarters at 22 Kreschatyk Street, Kyiv will take two years, Ihor Smilyanskyi, director of the state postal system, said in a video. With Kyiv’s commercial re...

The Cabinet of Ministers last night banned travel on buses and trains to and from four regions listed as ‘red zones’ for coronavirus infections: Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zakarpattia and Zhytomyr. The Cabinet of Ministers last night banned travel on buses and trains to and from four regions listed as ‘red zones’ for coronavirus infections: Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zakarpattia and Zhytomyr. ...

Thursday, March 4

Yesterday morning, the Health Minister Maksym Stepanov reported that 3,486 people were hospitalized with Coronavirus in the previous 24 hours. Yesterday morning, the Health Minister Maksym Stepanov reported that 3,486 people were hospitalized with Coronavirus in the previous 24 hours. During the same period, 7,235 new cases were registered, ...

By November, all Ukrainians will have had the opportunity to be vaccinated By November, all Ukrainians will have had the opportunity to be vaccinated, Stepanov said Monday on ICTV’s Freedom of Speech talk show. Starting next week, the daily vaccination rate is to hit 10,000....

Ukrainians can sign up for vaccinations through Ukrainians can sign up for vaccinations through the Diia website, or by calling the Health Ministry’s hotline: 0 800 60 20 19. Although international donors are paying for a large portion of the vacci...

Cargo handled by Ukraine’s ports was down 24% yoy in January-February, Cargo handled by Ukraine’s ports was down 24% yoy in January-February, to 20.6 million tons, reported the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority. Exports dropped by 23%, to 16.1 million tons. Imports dropped b...

High grain prices may partly cancel out falls in volume shipments High grain prices may partly cancel out falls in volume shipments. In the eight months since the grain marketing year started July 1, grain exports fell 22%, reported the Economy Ministry. Corn is dow...

Yet Black Sea grain prices are at seven-year high Yet Black Sea grain prices are at seven-year high: corn at $260-267 a ton, wheat at $281-288 a ton, and barley at $256-$263 a ton, reported Reuters. In the last marketing year, Ukraine exported 57 mil...

Kernel, the world’s largest sunflower oil producer, is halfway through a $169 million project to build cogeneration heat and power plants Kernel, the world’s largest sunflower oil producer, is halfway through a $169 million project to build cogeneration heat and power plants at its six oil seed crushing plants. The company already recei...

MHP Agroholding, Ukraine’s largest chicken producer plans to open 2,000 Myasomarket stores across Ukraine in the next three years MHP Agroholding, Ukraine’s largest chicken producer plans to open 2,000 Myasomarket stores across Ukraine in the next three years. Part of a shift from a ‘raw materials’ producer to a higher value ‘cu...

Mexico’s Grupo Bimbo is considering building a bakery in Fastiv, Kyiv region to bake buns for McDonald’s. Mexico’s Grupo Bimbo is considering building a bakery in Fastiv, Kyiv region to bake buns for McDonald’s. Three years ago, the multinational’s Ukraine unit, Bimbo QSR Ukraine, bought East Bolt Ukraine...

Swedish retailer H&M plans to open its first store outside of Kyiv in Kharkiv in May Swedish retailer H&M plans to open its first store outside of Kyiv in Kharkiv in May. With the 2,100 square meter store in the new Nikolskiy shopping mall, H&M will have six stores in Ukraine ...

With Kyiv traffic conjestion increasing, Ukravtodor agreed yesterday to complete the construction by the end of 2021 of the long-stalled New Darnytskyi Bridge With Kyiv traffic conjestion increasing, Ukravtodor agreed yesterday to complete the construction by the end of 2021 of the long-stalled New Darnytskyi Bridge. In what could be a $40 million project, ...

Kyivpastrans has opened a tender for two new cars for the Funicular, a purchase expected to cost €6.5 million. Kyivpastrans has opened a tender for two new cars for the Funicular, a purchase expected to cost €6.5 million. As part of a wider Urban Public Transport initiative for 11 Ukrainian cities, the Europea...

Casino gambling licenses have been issued to five hotels, Casino gambling licenses have been issued to five hotels, Danilo Hetmantsev, Head of the Rada’s Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs policy, said after a briefing Tuesday by Ivan Rudy, Head of the Co...

Turkish Airlines’ lowcost unit, AnadoluJet, will start flights to Ukraine for the first time on March 30 2021 with a flight between Ankara and Kyiv Boryspil. Turkish Airlines’ lowcost unit, AnadoluJet, will start flights to Ukraine for the first time on March 30 2021 with a flight between Ankara and Kyiv Boryspil. Flying a Boeing 737-800, Anadolujet schedu...

Last Tuesday, Turkey reopened restaurants for inside dining, ending a long ban. Last Tuesday, Turkey reopened restaurants for inside dining, ending a long ban. Ukrainian tourists can travel to Turkey without a visa if they have a negative coronavirus test result taken no earlier ...

With coronavirus hospitalizations spiking to the highest level since the pandemic appeared in Ukraine one year ago With coronavirus hospitalizations spiking to the highest level since the pandemic appeared in Ukraine one year ago, Ukrzalysnitsia is temporarily ceasing passenger train service to the three most effe...

Friday, February 19

In a survey of 172 hotels across Ukraine, 23% predict business will return this year to 2019 levels and 57% predict a full return in 2022 In a survey of 172 hotels across Ukraine, 23% predict business will return this year to 2019 levels and 57% predict a full return in 2022, reports the Ukrainian Hotel & Resort Association. Horwath...

In January, hotel occupancies were: In January, hotel occupancies were: Lviv – 35%; Kharkiv – 31%; Kyiv – 23%; and Odessa – 19%. The average room rate in Kyiv was $57, according to Hotel Matrix, a web-based analy...

Due to controls surrounding coronavirus, the world tourism industry lost $935 billion Due to controls surrounding coronavirus, the world tourism industry lost $935 billion during the first 10 months of 2020, reports United Nations World Tourism Organization. To allow safe travel, the E...

Despite corona controls, Ukraine’s Border Service registered 11.2 million exits by Ukrainians last year Despite corona controls, Ukraine’s Border Service registered 11.2 million exits by Ukrainians last year, potentially one quarter of the nation’s adult population. Top destinations were: Poland – 4 mil...

Ukraine received 3.4 million visits by foreigners Ukraine received 3.4 million visits by foreigners. The top countries were Ukraine’s land neighbors: Moldova – 933,000; Belarus – 463,500; Russia – 390,000; Poland – 272,000; Romania – 229,000; and Hun...

The number of Kyivstar subscribers who traveled abroad during the Dec. 24-Jan. 10 holiday season was down 81% yoy, The number of Kyivstar subscribers who traveled abroad during the Dec. 24-Jan. 10 holiday season was down 81% yoy, reports Ilya Polshakov, New Business Director for Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest mobile ...