“We believe that all risk categories need to be vaccinated at the expense of the state budget - this is about 20 million people.
These are people over 60 years old, people with concomitant diseases, these are all categories based on professionalism.
They need to be vaccinated at the expense of the budget, and we believe that it will be right, "RIA Novosti quotes Stepanov.
Earlier, Stepanov said that the Ministry of Health of Ukraine will propose to the government to introduce a lockdown from the beginning of January for three weeks.
In addition, 15,131 new cases of coronavirus infection were recorded in Ukraine per day.
In total, 787,891 patients with COVID-19 have been identified in the country.