Ukrainians were rushing to get vaccinated against the coronavirus after Kiev rolled out new anti-Covid measures to counter a surge in infections, AFP reports.

The country reported a record number of inoculations since it began offering jabs in February with more than 291,000 people fully vaccinated over the past 24 hours.

Authorities in the country of around 41 million people initially struggled to source vaccine doses and have since fought to convince vaccine-sceptic Ukrainians to get inoculated.

But new restrictions requiring vaccinations have recently seen people flock to vaccine centres with more than 1.6 million jabs administered this week compared to 906,000 in the previous seven days.