Kyiv Post Cartoons, issue 3

NEWS ITEM: Ukraine hasn’t yet obtained any COVID-19 vaccines and, thus, didn’t start mass vaccination. Ukrainian authorities claim that the first batch of vaccines will be shipped to Ukraine in March or later. Deflecting criticism at a Jan. 18 briefing, Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said that “even some developed countries haven’t yet started vaccination — for instance, Japan.” Japan has been recently reporting about 6,000 new daily COVID-19 cases, about the same as in Ukraine. However, Japan has the population of 126 million people, more than four times that of Ukraine.