KYIV, Feb 6 – The UNICEF would urgently supply 220,000 doses of measles vaccine to Ukraine at the end of February, the press service of Ukraine's Health Ministry has reported.

This is vaccine from Belgium (GlaxoSmithKline, GSK), which at once after its arrival would be delivered to the regions, the ministry said.

"A new batch of measles vaccine was purchased by UNICEF under an order of the Health Ministry in support of the public immunization program. Thanks to a confirmed international expertise in the field of procurement UNICEF was able to purchase almost 1.098 million additional doses of measles vaccine to respond to Ukraine's measles outbreak," the ministry said.