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Ukraine bans use of Russian COVID-19 vaccines

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/reuters/11/03/argentina.jpg"/><figcaption>Bottles with Russia&#x27;s &quot;Sputnik-V&quot; vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are seen before inoculation at a clinic in Tver, Russia October 12, 2020. <em>Tatyana Makeyeva, Reuters</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>KYIV — Ukraine&#x27;s parliament on Friday approved a bill intended to speed up the approval of COVID-19 vaccines, which also bans the approval of vaccines made in Russia.</p><p>The government has said it expects to receive 100,000 to 200,000 doses of the vaccine made by Pfizer Inc and Germany&#x27;s BioNTech under the global COVAX scheme in February.</p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO: </strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AUWN8EhVRHY?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>No vaccine has yet been approved in Ukraine but authorities have repeatedly said Kyiv will not approve or use vaccines from Russia, with which Ukraine&#x27;s ties are strained.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/01/22/21/hungary-buys-russias-sputnik-v-vaccine-first-in-eu-minister-says">Hungary buys Russia&#x27;s Sputnik V vaccine, first in EU, minister says</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/01/13/21/mexico-aims-to-fast-track-sputnik-vaccine-authorization-after-seeing-data">Mexico aims to fast track Sputnik vaccine authorization after seeing data</a></li></ul><p>&quot;One political force just created some hysteria over the registration of the Russian vaccine,&quot; Ukraine&#x27;s Health Minister Maksym Stepanov told a televised briefing.</p><p>&quot;I can say at once: You can be hysterical for a very long time, no one will register the Russian vaccine in the country.&quot;</p><p>Biolik, a Ukrainian pharmaceutical company backed by Viktor Medvedchuk, a prominent Russia-leaning opposition figure, said earlier this month it had applied for state approval to make Russia&#x27;s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, a sensitive move given the poor relations between Kyiv and Moscow.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/01/25/21/pakistan-to-approve-russian-sputnik-covid-19-vaccine-for-emergency-use">Pakistan to approve Russian Sputnik COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use</a></li></ul><p>The two countries have been at loggerheads since Russia&#x27;s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and involvement in a conflict in Ukraine&#x27;s eastern Donbass region which Kyiv says has killed 14,000 people.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/T0rT3diQw_U?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

<p>Ukraine's parliament on Friday approved a bill intended to speed up the approval of COVID-19 vaccines, which also bans the approval of vaccines made in Russia.</p>

Ukraine's parliament on Friday approved a bill intended to speed up the approval of COVID-19 vaccines, which also bans the approval of vaccines made in Russia.