Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Uzbekistan may receive another batch of coronavirus vaccines as part of the COVAX program in August. This was announced by Botir Kurbonov, deputy head of the Sanitary-Epidemiological Welfare and Public Health Service.

According to him, delivery of one of the AstraZeneca (not CoviShield), Pfizer, Moderna vaccines or another vaccine recognized by WHO under the COVAX program is expected in August.

Uzbekistan became part of the COVAX program in August 2020. The goal of the COVAX program is to distribute licensed vaccine equally to all participants. Earlier it was reported that Uzbekistan will receive more than 2 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines. The first batch of 660,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines was delivered to Uzbekistan in March.

Uzbekistan also received 240,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine and 4.5 million of the Chinese-Uzbek vaccine ZF-UZ-VAC2001.