Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) - Uzbekistan plans to receive 17.9 million doses of vaccines against coronavirus. This was announced during the visit of the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev during his visit to the Jurabek Laboratories enterprise.

According to Gazeta.uz, Uzbekistan will purchase 12 million doses of ZF-UZ-VAC-2001 vaccine, 3 million doses of Moderna, 1.7 million doses of Sputnik V.

Uzbekistan also intends to receive 1.2 million doses of Pfizer / Bio N Tech vaccine.

The publication notes that the cost of the vaccines supplied to Uzbekistan is US$44.76 million. In particular, US$39.1 million was spent on the purchase of the ZF-UZ-VAC-2001 vaccine, Sputnik V - US$3.68 million and AstraZeneca (CovieShield) - US$1.98 mln.