Ukraine’s parliament has approved a bill intended to speed up the approval of Covid-19 vaccines, which also bans the approval of vaccines made in Russia, Reuters reports.
No vaccine has yet been approved in Ukraine but authorities have repeatedly said Kyiv will not approve or use vaccines from Russia, with which Ukraine’s ties are strained.
“One political force just created some hysteria over the registration of the Russian vaccine,” Ukraine’s Health Minister Maksym Stepanov told a televised briefing.
“I can say at once: You can be hysterical for a very long time, no one will register the Russian vaccine in the country.”
