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 Countries in eastern Europe have reported more than 10.02 million
cases and 214,691 deaths since the pandemic started. However, daily
average new cases in the region have declined by about 31% in past
30 days as compared with the previous 30 days, according to a
Reuters analysis. (Graphic: https://tmsnrt.rs/34pvUyi)
Russia has the most cases in the region and became the first
European country to surpass 4 million on Monday. The country has
also reported the most deaths in Eastern Europe at about 79,194,
according to a Reuters tally.
Graphic: Eastern Europe COVID-19 cases and deaths per capita -
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In Eastern Europe, seven nations including Russia, Poland, Czech
Republic, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria have administered
about 4.5 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, according to the data from
their respective health ministries.
Russia has administered at least a million doses of COVID-19
vaccines so far. Assuming every person needs two doses, that's
enough to have vaccinated about 0.3% of the country's population,
according to a Reuters analysis.
In a pandemic that has killed more than 750,000 people in Europe
alone, the delay in shipments announced by vaccine makers
AstraZeneca PLC and Pfizer Inc has put in jeopardy the European
Union's summer target of vaccinating 70% of adults.
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 To cope with the shortage in
vaccine supplies, many countries in eastern
Europe have started looking for other vaccine
providers from countries like China and Russia.
Hungary will start vaccinating people suffering no chronic diseases
with Russia's Sputnik V vaccine soon, becoming the first EU member
country to use it, while Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said on
Wednesday that the country would wait for European Medicines
Agency's (EMA) approval of the Russian vaccine.
Ukraine, which has registered more than 1.2 million coronavirus
cases and 24,058 deaths, has already agreed to buy some vaccines
from China and expects to get at least 8 million doses under the
global COVAX programme for poorer countries.
The country has also secured 12 million COVID vaccines from the
Serum Institute of India developed by AstraZeneca and Novavax.
Graphic: Vaccination in Eastern Europe -
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(Reporting by Roshan Abraham and Anurag Maan in Bengaluru; Editing
by Lisa Shumaker)
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