KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's parliament named a new health minister on Thursday, who promised to speed up vaccinations against COVID-19, including by trying to make vaccines domestically. Viktor Lyashko, previously a deputy health minister, was promoted to replace Maksym Stepanov, who was fired this week after Prime Minister Denys Shmygal accused him of failing to supply vaccines quickly enough. We will do everything so that Ukrainians can be vaccinated, work and travel," Lyashko told the parliament. Shmygal said this week only 2.3 million doses of vaccine had been delivered to Ukraine so far. Ukraine has registered around 2.2 million infections and 48,899 deaths since the start of the pandemic last year.

Source: The Star May 20, 2021 08:03 UTC