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Serbia to start Covid-19 vaccinations on 24 Dec

Country has received nearly 5,000 doses of the vaccine

23 December, 19:32
(ANSA-AFP) - BELGRADE, DEC 23 - Serbia will begin vaccinating people against Covid-19 on Thursday, President Aleksandar Vucic said Wednesday, making the Balkan state one of the first in Europe to launch a campaign with the Pfizer-BioNTech shot.

Officials said Serbia has received nearly 5,000 doses of the vaccine, which is already in use in the United States and Britain. Meanwhile European Union countries plan to roll out the vaccine on December 27. "Vaccination starts tomorrow in Serbia," Vucic told the press, adding that the first jabs would go to the elderly in retirement homes. "It is important to protect these people... more than 80 percent of the people who have died from this terrible virus are the elderly and they are most at risk," he said. (ANSA-AFP).

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