Dr. Djerlek: Another 10,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine arriving today, 110,000 by end of February

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About 10,000 doses will arrive today and it will be like that the next two Mondays, while on February 15, we will receive 40,000 doses, and as many seven days later, says Dr. Mirsad Djerlek.

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About 110,000 doses of the vaccine produced by Pfizer-Biontech should arrive in Serbia by the end of February, said Dr. Mirsad Djerlek, State Secretary at the Ministry of Health.

"Since Pfizer has halved the agreed deliveries, we sent them a letter asking why they did that and they replied that due to that reduction, we will receive twice as many doses on February 15 as was agreed on a weekly basis - 40,000. And on February 22, they will deliver 40,000 doses to us. Since deliveries are arriving weekly, every Monday, today we will receive about 10,000 doses, which is 50 percent of the agreed quantities, and we will immediately use 6,000 doses to revaccinate healthcare workers."

"And in the next two Mondays, we will receive the same quantities, which we will use to vaccinate the population," Djerlek explained. He also pointed out that the agreed delivery of 250,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V is expected to arrive, as well as that final talks are being held with the Poles, from whom we are buying 800,000 doses of the vaccine produced by Oxford and AstraZeneca. We received a million doses from China's Sinopharm, and Djerlek stressed that the citizens' interest in the Chinese vaccine is huge.

"Starting today vaccination in healthcare centers will be done in two shifts, from 7 am until 8 pm, in order to meet the needs of those older than 65, because they are used to going to healthcare centers," Djerlek pointed out.

He announced that, in addition to Hall 11 at the Belgrade Fair, Hall 3 will be open for vaccination, also starting today:

"Gradska Cistoca (public utility company) workers will be vaccinated at the Fair today, 14,000 of them have applied, then workers of the Post Office, then those of the Belgrade Waterworks and Sewerage, Kolubara, and so on. We will vaccinate between 1,500 and 2,000 people tomorrow at the Belgrade Fair, and the plan is for this to reach between 8,000 and 10,000 per day soon."

(Telegraf.rs)