Serbia's vaccines in Kosovo speak those vaccinated

In a statement to Radio Free Europe, he says he had learned about the vaccine by chance Friday evening from a neighbour. He then says that he decided to see if it could be vaccinated, hoping that someone from the list for the vaccine would give up.

That's what happened. At least three people quit. Fortunately, the vaccine was more than previously listed. It was planned for 50, and 60 vaccines already arrived, so there was no problem with whether anyone would give up or not. The doctor immediately told me to wait because there would be vaccines. I took the vaccine without asking for the”, Radenkovic said.

Pako with the doses of the anti-cronavirus vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech companies that have arrived in northern Kosovo municipalities.

Serbian health institutions have not been able to get a comment on whether to continue with the population's immunization of COVIDD-19 in northern Kosovo.

According to unofficial data, in four municipalities in northern Kosovo: Northern Mitrovica, Leposaviq, Zubin Potok and Zvecan, from Serbia have reached about 50 doses of Pfizer vaccines/ BioNTech, meanwhile, has been assigned in three weeks since the first dose was accepted.

Initially, individuals over 65 years of chronic illness and those called in by doctors were vaccinated.

Vaccina expected to reach Gracanica as well

Also, in Gracanica, this predominantly Serb-run municipality in the vicinity of Pristina is becoming a citizen complaint about how much people want to be vaccinated. Then, on this basis, Serbia's Health Ministry will send vaccines.

This is confirmed for Radio Free Europe, Health House Director in Gracanica Mirjana Dimitrijevic. She stressed that the survey is linked to patients over 65 years of age and that the data will serve the vaccine.

She did not specify when vaccines will reach Gracanica nor in what amount, but stressed that there are a large number of people who have expressed a desire to be vaccinated.

We expect that after we deliver this data to competent institutions, we will receive the supply invitation and start with the distribution of vaccines”, Dimitrijevic stressed.

Investigations begin to enter vaccines in northern Kosovo

Acting Kosovo Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti and Commissioner for Neighborship and Enlargement Oliver Varhely on Monday “raised concern” regarding the illegal introduction of the vaccine against the new coronary in Kosovo, “pa regular import procedures or donations for medical products, which neither are known to be”.

In a media report by Hoti's office, “this behaviour of the Republic of Serbia was considered unacceptable, and Kosovo institutions have initiated the necessary legal actions against persons involved in these actions”.

On December 26th, Kosovo's incumbent government said there is no data from Customs and Border Police, that vaccines against COVID-19 disease have entered Kosovo, which is said to have been distributed to citizens in the country's north.

The Constitutional Prosecutor in Mitrovica has already started collecting information about the entry into Kosovo's northern municipalities of vaccines against COVID-19, the chief prosecutor in Mitrovica, Shyqri Syla, has confirmed to Radio Europe.

If we have evidence that they are really smuggled because there must be a authorization to use these vaccines, and if they are illegal, criminal procedures will be launched against those who have done these jobs”, Procuror Syla said.

“Criminal investigations will be launched after the collection of investigations and depending on the findings, criminal investigations against persons who smuggled them will begin. I'm assuming there may be criminal acts of irresponsible treatment because they have no authorization to treat in Kosovo. Maybe they weren't even professional. We need a little longer work, but I hope we get to the bottom of”, he added.

On the other hand, Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vuciq, has said Serbia will continue to take care of its <x0nd people in Kosovo” and that it is ready to send medicines and vaccines to Albanians as well.

No one should even think about attacking someone who shared drugs”, Vuciq said.

Arton Demhasaj, director of the Organisation for Democracy, Anti-Corruption and Dignitity ; Stand up, tells Radio Free Europe that bringing vaccines against COVID-19 disease from Serbia to Kosovo is just one of the forms through which, Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vuciq, recently tries to attack Kosovo politics.

Sending the vaccine, according to him, has been a boost to the humanitarian issue to boost the Kosovo authorities' response, as had been the case with the delivery of coronary tests in April of this year.

Demhayan points out that regardless of whether you send vaccines against COVID-19 from Serbia on Kosovo's territory may have the humanitarian connotation, such remittances should be subject to Kosovo laws and procedures of the country's institutions.

He (Vuccik) now expects to have institutional reactions on the part of Kosovo and then use it in the international arena as if the é, even for a humanitarian intervention we are making for Serbian citizens in Kosovo, but there are such reactions. They're not respecting minority rights and shit. So to use it politically. I even think that the goal of why Serbia has managed so quickly to provide the vaccine, even in front of many European Union countries, is deliberately. So, first they bring it to Kosovo and expect the response of our institutions and then use it politically. I don't think this was supposed to be allowed to happen”, Demhayan stressed.

He added, however, that there is the possibility that Albanian citizens will also turn to Serbian health institutions to obtain vaccines, due to delays in Kosovo institutions to provide them.

Former director of the House of Health in Gracanica, Rada Trajkoviq, estimates that Serbia's state leader is using the vaccine against the Coronavirus in Kosovo for political purposes, because the tiny number of vaccines serves to popularise pandemic and not to offer protection for the country”.

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However, it does not even support the Kosovo authorities' decision to launch the investigation into the north because, according to her, “patriotism does not dare be involved in the field of medicine”. She has stressed that “is inhuman to show citizenship through vaccine”.

Citizens stay near the hospital in northern Mitrovica, where anti-cronobrus vaccines are being administered, which were introduced from Serbia.

Citizens stay near the hospital in northern Mitrovica, where anti-cronobrus vaccines are being administered, which were introduced from Serbia.

Trajkovic has clarified that all drugs entering Serb-run residential spaces in Kosovo, including vaccines, are sent through the Ministry of Health of the Government of Serbia.

We've always had herbs and vaccines. On the other hand, institutions from Pristina have supplied health institutions to areas populated by Albanian majority. This is reality. Giving each other some medicine is human, while health systems operate separately 20 years”, Trajkovic said.

The health system in majority Serb municipalities in Kosovo functions within the Serbian system.

Serbian Prime Minister Anna Brnabyq during taking the first dose of Pfizer vaccine/ B NTech vs. Coronervirus.

Free Europe Radio has learned that vaccines have not entered Kosovo through the Public Health Ent, which operates within the Serbian system in the north.

Otherwise, incumbent Minister of Kosovo Health Armend Zemaj said at the weekend that Kosovo, on December 7th, has officially applied to the COVAX programme, on securing the vaccine against COVID-19. He has so far not confirmed whether Kosovo is conducting negotiations with Pfizer and BioNTech companies for securing their vaccine.

COVAX is a program of the World Health Organization, which aims at the distribution of the anti - coronary vaccine even in poorer countries.

This programme, according to a Reuters research, has so far established non-binding supply agreements with companies, AstraZeneca, Novavax and Sanofi.