Vaccines: Varhelyi in Kosovo and Albania on EU's supply
The visit of the European Commissioner to the region ends today
05 May, 18:59Varhelyi, who began his mission to Serbia on Monday, visited today Albania and Kosovo, which will receive 145,000 and 95,000 doses of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines by August, respectively. These vaccines are in addition to those obtained through Covax, the World Health Organization (WHO) initiative to guarantee access to vaccines for middle and low-income countries of which the EU is one of the prominent donors.
The Balkan countries, except Serbia, mainly relied on the WHO mechanism, but the delivery delays prompted Brussels to seek a bridging solution to guarantee the vaccines necessary to protect health personnel and more fragile sections of the population.
(ANSA).