The plane with the first doses of Pfizer's vaccine landed at Belgrade's "Nikola Tesla" airport. The contingent includes 4,800 vaccines.
The airplane landed a little earlier than announced,as Blic writes. Four days ago, the Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices of Serbia gave its consent for the import of Pfizer's vaccine.
Three days ago, the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, announced the arrival of these vaccines, adding that "we can quickly expect a mass vaccination".
- Of course, the vaccines will be free, in the next couple of days we will get the first ones, it will not arrive as much as we expected, around 10,000 was supposed to arrive, but about 5,000 we can expect. We will first immunize citizens over the age of 75. We will provide 50,000 vaccines for free - said Vučić earlier.
EU regulators approved a coronavirus vaccine made by BioNTech and Pfizer yesterday, and at the end of the same day, the European Commission issued a marketing authorization for the vaccine, making it the first EU-approved Covid-19 vaccine.