an hour agoThe Western Balkans: EU brings 651 thousand doses of Pfizer vaccine to our region
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)European Union (BE) is intensively engaged to enable sending vaccines against COVID-19 in the Western Balkans has told Radio Free Europe, sources at the headquarters of EU institutions in Brussels. According to these sources, it is about 651 thousand doses of Pfizer/BionTech vaccines, which will be distributed to countries [...]
According to these sources, it is about 651 thousand doses of Pfizer/BionTech vaccines, which will be distributed to Western Balkan countries.
The purpose of delivering these vaccines is to immunate health professionals and other priority groups.
These are vaccines that will come directly from the EU, and are independent from the COVAX programme, of the World Health Organisation, which aims to distribute vaccines to poor countries.
The EU is working to reach the so-called trilateral agreement, which will include Western Balkan countries, Pfizer Company and the EU itself.
According to these sources, Austria will be the country that will help on the administrative side of the vaccine distribution.
In December 2020, the European Commission allocated 70m euros for the supply of Western Balkan countries.
European Union Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhely held a conversation Friday with the Western Balkan Foreign Affairs ministers through video connection. He said that recent actions to ensure the distribution of vaccines were discussed in this conversation. COVID-19.
