Sweden to donate more than 500,000 doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to Ukraine

Sweden has decided to donate more than 500,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine to Ukraine

Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde announced this on Twitter.

The head of the Swedish Foreign Ministry noted that the aid was transferred to Ukraine at the last week's request.

The ministry emphasizes that a newer version of the vaccine, adapted to the Omicron strain, is being transferred to Ukraine.

The specific name of the drug is not indicated.

We are probably talking about Comirnaty Original/Omicron BA.1 since it is the last approved adapted vaccine from Pfizer – Comirnaty Original/Omicron BA.4-5 – that received the "green light" from the European regulator and the European Commission only the day before.

"Ukraine will be one of the first countries in the world outside the EU to receive a new, adapted vaccine," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs notes.

It should be noted that Sweden, in proportion to the population, became one of the largest donors of vaccines for less well-off countries during the coronavirus pandemic.