Head of the Ministry of Health Viktor Lyashko announced that today he will sign an order to introduce a third dose of COVID in Ukraine. It is a question of an additional dose, not a booster dose.

This is reported by RBC-Ukraine, referring to the briefing of the Minister.

"Today I will sign the order that approves the position of the national technical expert group on immunoprophylaxis and allows administering an additional dose of vaccine against COVID," the minister said.

He separately emphasized that we are talking about an additional dose, not a booster dose.

"An additional dose is a dose that is administered in order to achieve better protection in persons who, for health reasons, have low vaccine efficacy compared to the effectiveness of the vaccine in the general population," he noted.

Recall that the third dose of the vaccine will be given, in particular, to transplant patients and HIV-infected people.