As part of the COVAX program, one of the vaccines recognized by the World Health Organization is expected to be delivered to Uzbekistan in August, announced Botir Qurbonov, deputy head of the Sanitary-Epidemiological Welfare and Public Health Service.
“AstraZeneca (not CoviShield), Pfizer, Moderna or another vaccine recognized by WHO under the COVAX program is expected to be delivered in August,” he said.
Uzbekistan joined COVAX in August. The goal of the program is to distribute the licensed vaccine equally among all its parties. More than 2 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine are planned to be delivered to Uzbekistan. The country received the first batch of 660 thousand doses in mid-March.
Earlier, Uzbekistan also received 240 thousand doses of the Russian "Sputnik V" and 4.5 million of the Chinese-Uzbek vaccine ZF-UZ-VAC2001.
In January, Deputy Minister of Health and Head of the Sanitary and Epidemiological Service Bakhodir Yusupaliev announced that 100,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine were expected to be delivered to Uzbekistan.
