Ukraine urges citizens to get vaccinated as daily COVID toll hits record – The Peninsula Qatar

Ukraine urges citizens to get vaccinated as daily COVID toll hits record – The Peninsula Qatar

KYIV - Ukraine's health minister urged more people to get their COVID-19 shots as coronavirus deaths hit a daily record of 734 on Tuesday, with hospitalisations up more than a fifth on the previous week.

One of Europe's poorest countries, Ukraine fell behind in the race for vaccine supplies this year and so far only around 7 million in a population of 41 million are fully vaccinated.

It is one of several countries in former communist eastern Europe, where vaccination rates are the continent's lowest, now experiencing a record-setting wave of infections with some of the highest death rates in the world.