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50,000 Chinese Vaccine Doses Arrive In Serbia
Serbia on Monday received a shipment of 500,000 dozes of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine from China.
Serbia on Monday received a shipment of 500,000 dozes of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine from China.
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic and Chinese Ambassador to Serbia Chen Bo were at Belgrade s Nikola Tesla Airport overseeing the arrival of the vaccines shipment. With this shipment, we have received in total 3 million vaccines that Sinopharm delivered, Brnabic said.
Serbia has vaccinated more than 1.9 million people with at least one doze of the vaccine, she added.
Most people have received China s Sinopharm vaccine, followed by Pfizer-BioNTech, Russia s Sputnik V and AstraZeneca.
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Serbia s President Aleksandar Vučić and Bosnia s members of tripartite presidency Šefik Džaferović, Milorad Dodik and Željko Komšić hold a joint news conference, following the donation of a batch of vaccines against COVID-19 by Serbia at Sarajevo International Airport on March 2, 2021 [Reuters/Dado Ruvić]
Over the past year, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has often showed up at Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla Airport to welcome shipments of masks, medical equipment, and vaccines from China. So far, Serbia has received millions of euros worth of medical supplies and two million doses of the Sinopharm jab.
This has enabled the country to push forward with its vaccination drive and placed it among the top immunisation champions, along with Israel, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates.
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