Seeking escape from grinding poverty in northern Vietnam, the 43-year-old farmer labored for years on construction sites in Kuwait and Uzbekistan before being offered a ticket to what he was told would be “the promised land” Europe, and a job with a good salary.
“I wanted to go to the West to change my life,” the farmer, a father of three who asked that his name not be used to avoid retribution from his employer, recalled in an interview.
His life certainly changed: It got much worse.
Foreigners flock to Serbia for vaccines China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-04-09 10:06 A nurse administers a dose of vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a health station of the Health Center Dr Veroljub Cakic Majdanpek, in Rudna Glava, Serbia, April 6, 2021. [[Photo/Agencies]
BELGRADE, Serbia－Thousands of vaccine-seekers from countries neighboring Serbia have flocked to Belgrade after Serbian authorities on Saturday offered foreigners free coronavirus jabs if they showed up over the weekend.
During the weekend, long lines of Bosnians, Montenegrins and Macedonians－often entire families－formed in front of the main vaccination center in the Serbian capital. We don t have vaccines. I came here to get vaccinated, said Zivko Trajkovski, who is from North Macedonia. We are very grateful because we can vaccinate quicker than in (North)Macedonia.
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Thousands of vaccine-seekers from countries neighboring Serbia flocked to Belgrade on Saturday after Serbian authorities offered foreigners free coronavirus jabs if they showed up over the weekend.
Long lines of Bosnians, Montenegrins and Macedonians often entire families formed in front of the main vaccination center in the Serbian capital as police kept watch.
“We don’t have vaccines. I came here to get vaccinated,” said Zivko Trajkovski, who is from North Macedonia. “We are very grateful because we can vaccinate quicker than in Macedonia.”
Zoran Dedic of Bosnia noted that his country and Serbia were part of a joint federation before Yugoslavia disintegrated in a war during the 1990s. “It does not make any difference, Bosnia or Serbia. It does not matter,” he said.
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