Kosovo tries to provide the vaccine against the coronary once it is discovered

Kosovo has started negotiations with international partners operating in health, such as the United Nations Children's Agency (UNICEF) and the World Health Organisation (OBSH) to provide the vaccine against Coronavirus, when such a vaccine is produced and qualified for use in people, health ministry officials in Kosovo suggest.

Currently, in the world over 100 potential vaccines are under way. Twenty-one vaccines are in clinical trials, and all countries are trying to secure them.

The smaller and poor countries generally try to provide vaccines through joint international schemes, such as WHO-led COVAX, the Coalition for Epidical Preparation Innovations (CEPI) and Gavi (The Global Alliance for Vaccins and Immunization).

So far, 90 poor countries have joined this project, and 75 wealthy people have expressed their intention to finance it. According to WHO, these countries together make up 60 percent of the world's population.

This initiative aims to send 2 billion doses of the vaccine approved against COVID-19, which causes the Coronavirus by the end of 2021.

However, there is still no vaccine capable of protecting billions of people at once to end the pandemic of COVID-19, which has claimed more than 650 thousand lives.

Warnings are that such a vaccine could be released at the end of this year.

Minister of Health in the Government of Kosovo spokesman Faik Hoti said they are working towards securing the vaccine against COVIDD-19, the moment it is discovered.

The Health Ministry is co-operating with international partners operating in the health field ( O OVR and U NICEF) so that at the moment the vaccine is produced and qualified for use in people, it can be provided for the protection of Kosovo citizens from COVID-19”, says Hoti for REL.

The number of vaccines, Hoti adds, will try to be as large as possible so that in the event of an eventual inoculation, each category of population falling into danger groups will be covered.

According to him, the endangered groups include chronically ill people, older people, pregnant women, and other categories that are more exposed to the virus, including health personnel.

In terms of financial means, which will be divided for the COVID vaccine 19, or other issues involved in the vaccine plan, Hoti says these are technical details and that is still the stage when this vaccine is not discovered, more details should be provided.

“Inocation plans usually discussed with partners such as O OVR and U NICEF and practices from earlier years, especially since 2009, we have been taught that Kosovo, at that time, also the vaccine against the A-H1N1 virus, known as swine flu, has provided them through these roads, namely, partners that are known to be international health-level organisations”, says Hoti.

So far, Hoti adds, partnership with international organisations like U NICEF and O BSH was a strategic.

Kosovo Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti had said on July 5th that the Health Ministry is obliged to share the budget needed to purchase the eventual vaccine against COVID-19, in accordance with European Commission and WHO protocols, whenever it is available.

The American population will get the vaccine for free.

However, the United States, China and Russia have shown no interest in the scheme, such as COVAX.

Meanwhile, these countries, as well as the European Union and India, are trying to independently develop a vaccine or to link agreements with pharmaceutical companies in order to provide supplies needed for their needs, which, according to experts, neglect global ones.

The United States has ordered 100 million doses of the potential vaccine against coronary.

When it comes to countries in the region, on July 31st Croatia has officially confirmed its readiness to negotiate an agreement with the European Commission for the purchase of a vaccine against COVID-19.

As Croatian Health Minister Wilki Beros has announced, with this agreement, EU member states would authorise the European Commission to link previous agreements with vaccine producers for the purchase of vaccines.

Croatia also signed a pre-agreement agreement on the purchase of a million and a half doses of the new vaccine with a pharmaceutical company when it appears on the market.

Meanwhile, Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq announced that talks are under way with a country that, as he said, has completed the vaccine against him. COVIDD-19 and that “wax the endangered population”.

He added that he is hoping Serbia could have that vaccine before the end of the year.