The Cabinet of Ministers at its meeting approved a draft resolution that will regulate the purchase of  COVID-19 vaccine with the involvement of a specialized organization Crown Agents Limited with a loan from the European Investment Bank.

The EIB will provide UAH 1.66 billion (or EUR 50 million) for the purchase of the vaccine from COVID-19 under the project “Municipal Infrastructure Development Program of Ukraine”. The conditions for attracting these funds are their direction purely for the purchase of a vaccine against coronavirus infection.

Payment for operational services of the said organization, as well as logistics and banking transactions will be made within the funds provided by the Ministry of Health under the budget program 2301270 "Vaccination of the population from acute respiratory disease COVID-19".

To clarify the method of payment for such services, amendments are made to the Procedure for the use of funds provided in the state budget for vaccination of the population against acute respiratory disease COVID-19 caused by coronavirus SARS-CoV2, approved by the Government.

To date, 29 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from various manufacturers have been purchased with Crown Agents, of which 15.5 million doses have been delivered.