Health Ministry reacts after reports that 10,000 Kosovo citizens were vaccinated from Serbia

It says they are aware of the pressure related to this process, in particular from Serbia, but Kosovo citizens must be vaccinated with vaccines that have received approval from the FDA, MMA and the WTO, rather than vaccines from Serbia and Russia.

On the other hand, the MS is aware of the pressure done by other countries related to the vaccine process in Kosovo, in particular for the interventions Serbia makes to citizens (mostly of the Serb community), inviting them to be vaccinated in Serbia. Furthermore, Serbia has made the distribution of a number of vaccines (mostly of Russia's Sputnik vaccines and others) in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Montenegro and in the Republic of Northern Macedonia, but Kosovo citizens have been informed even earlier that the government of the Republic of Kosovo has been clear from the start that Kosovo citizens should be vaccinated with vaccines that have received approval from FDA, EMA and the WTO, rather than vaccines from Serbia and Russia.

By reassuring citizens that Kosovo has met all criteria required by different partners and mechanisms to provide the vaccine, it wants to re-focus the fact that the priority for this mechanism has been states with a more severe epidemiology situation, while priority producers have given states that represent market greater than Kosovo”.

We remember yesterday, the mayor of the Gracanica municipality, Srdjan Popovic, announced that 10,000 citizens from Kosovo received this vaccine.