After several delays, Ukraine on Tuesday finally received its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine doses. The country of 40 million people is one of the poorest in Europe and one of the last in the region to begin inoculating its population. A plane carrying 500,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, marketed under the name Covishield and produced at the Serum Institute in India - the world’s largest vaccine maker – landed at Kiev’s Boryspil airport. “It has arrived,” health ministry spokesperson Sofia Fedchenko told AFP. Health Minister Maksym Stepanov was due to detail the ex-Soviet country’s vaccination strategy at a press conference later Tuesday. President Volodymyr Zelensky had faced criticism for failing to obtain vaccines earlier for Ukraine, which suffers from an ageing healthcare system. Zelensky has blamed the delay on wealthier Western countries that reserved the Pfizer and Moderna jabs in bulk, and has urged the EU to help eastern European countries source vaccines. His government had originally announced that it would begin its vaccination campaign in mid-February, but the shipment of the first vaccine doses was delayed. Ukraine is also awaiting delivery of eight...