KYIV, March 30 – Ukraine will receive the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines as part of the COVAX initiative by April 15, Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said.

"The first batch of vaccines is 360,000 doses of AstraZeneca and 117,000 doses of Pfizer. According to COVAX, we should receive it by April 15. By the end of May we should receive 1.7 million doses," he said on the air of the Hard with Vlashchenko program on the Ukraine 24 TV channel.

Stepanov recalled that in total, Ukraine will receive 8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines under COVAX.