2 hours agoNeither Cvaks, nor Pfizers, nor Edi Rama, Kosovo still remains without vaccines. - CO VID19
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)While most countries in the region have already been supplied with vaccines against Ovid 19, Kosovo has so far provided only the refrigerator that serves to preserve these vaccines, which are still unknown when they arrive. This is due to some delays, which, according to the Health Ministry, were done by companies themselves which [...]
While most countries in the region have already been supplied with vaccines against Ovid 19, Kosovo has so far provided only the refrigerator that serves to preserve these vaccines, which are still unknown when they arrive.
This was due to some delays, which according to the Health Ministry, were done by companies themselves that would provide the anti-Convidian vaccine.
In the joint MS communiqué, IKSHPK, WTO and U NICEFs related to vaccines against Coved-19, reportedly the company COVAX had confirmed and released the announcement that Kosovo will be supplied with 100,000 and 800 doses of vaccine Astra Zeneca at the end of February, Periscopi writes.
But according to the communiqué, the Health Ministry is still awaiting final confirmation, even though we have already entered the third month of 2021.
Same as COVAX, the Pfizer company, which according to the MS communiqué, had confirmed the division of 500 thousand anti-Convidian vaccines for Kosovo, where the first part was expected to arrive in Kosovo at the end of February 2021, but has not yet arrived.
These delays have prompted government public statements about providing vaccines, including Health Minister Armend Zemajn himself, who had earlier indicated that the first anti-Convid vaccines would arrive in Kosovo in late February.
“I just received the official email that the first contingent of vaccines will come in February. This is extraordinary news for Kosovo citizens”, Zemaj said at RTK in December 2020.
And public promises have not even sidelined Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, who on January 1st this year had declared that Albania has secured 500 thousand doses of anti-Convidus-19 vaccine from the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer.
He had said that from the amount of vaccine Albania has provided, he will share some doses even for the vaccination of health workers in Kosovo.
“Albania will not turn its back on Kosovo”, Rama has said, broadcast Periscopi.
But, after reaching the first doses of vaccine in Albania, Rama's statements had changed?
“We have taken a pledge to help Kosovo, but I want to clarify that the extremely strict rules and the extremely strong restrictions Pfizer company has decided, as they have on one side that we remain strict on the origin of the country from which we started the vaccine campaign, make it impossible for us to donate vaccine doses. But they don't make it impossible for us to offer vaccines for a number of doctors and nurses from Pristina's COVID-19 hospital as promised. I have asked the health minister to communicate with Kosovo counterpart and we are ready for 50 white shirts for both doses”, Rama had declared.
The Kosovo Health Ministry did not provide any concrete answers to Periscope if they are in talks with the Government of Albania for any possibility of co-operation.
And despite these developments and statements, Kosovo on the other side has yet to provide neither the first doses of anti-Condavit vaccine, except for refrigerators serving to preserve these vaccines, which have already arrived in Kosovo. /Periscopi
