Slightly more than one-third of the eligible population in Ukraine had been vaccinated for the coronavirus in the days following Russia’s invasion, and it’s unknown where that percentage currently stands.
As of Feb. 27, three days after Russia launched the military operation, 35% of eligible Ukrainians were fully vaccinated and the 7-day rolling average of new COVID-19 cases was at its highest of more than 37,000 on Feb. 10, according to Our World in Data. The rolling average decreased dramatically in the following days, and the data dropped to zero by March 3. It hasn’t been updated since the war began.
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Prior to the invasion, at least 50,000 people were getting vaccinated daily, but from the start of the military offensive to March 15, only 175,000 people had been inoculated, according to the World Health Organization.
“While COVID vaccinations are still being administered in safe places, vaccine distribution is limited to 500-1,000 doses per location per day,” a spokesperson for U.S. Agency for International Development told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday.
More than 110,000 Ukrainians have died of the disease, though that total has not been updated since the invasion began. It’s unknown how many additional people have contracted or died of COVID-19 in the last five-plus weeks.
The United States, which authorized $100 million more in military assistance to Ukraine on Tuesday, has provided more than $73 million in COVID-related assistance and donated almost 3.2 million doses of the vaccine to the nation since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the spokesperson.
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Ukrainians who flee, as more than 4 million have so far, and hope to come to the U.S. will have to be tested for the coronavirus, according to a U.S. State Department spokesperson.
“Health protocols governing U.S. refugee resettlement are developed and overseen by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),” the spokesperson told the Washington Examiner. “As with anyone traveling to the United States, refugees are screened and tested for COVID before coming to the United States.”
