While some European countries are still lacking doses, Serbia has decided to open wide the floodgates of vaccination. The Balkan Peninsula country began on Friday to vaccinate migrants staying on its territory. Vaccinations of migrants staying in reception camps in Serbia have started in Krnjaca near Belgrade. More than 500 migrants have registered to receive vaccines.
According to state television (RTS), a vaccination campaign targeting foreign citizens has also been launched. From Friday, foreign citizens can be vaccinated in Serbia, at the Belgrade Fair where the main vaccination center is located. Most come from countries in the region and also from EU countries, the RTS said. National television did not put forward figures on the number of these foreign nationals, nor did it explain whether the decision to vaccinate foreigners was due to a drop in the interest of Serbian citizens.
Vaccine donations
Migrants and foreigners have only the AstraZeneca vaccine at their disposal, the use of which was temporarily suspended last week by many European countries after reports of rare bleeding disorders and blood clots. Most of them have resumed since vaccination with AstraZeneca after the opinion of the European regulator who deemed it “safe and effective”. “I am grateful to Serbia for this gesture on behalf of the citizens of Bosnia, it has opened its doors,” said, facing the camera, a man whom the RTS did not identify. “A colleague came to try yesterday and got vaccinated, and the word spread all over Sarajevo,” said another.
In North Macedonia, media report that thousands of citizens were called on Friday to travel to Belgrade for vaccination. According to these media, the authorities called on these citizens not to leave for Serbia during the curfew in effect from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. local time. Over the weekend, Saturday and Sunday, RTS announces a vaccination campaign for business owners and their employees from Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Kosovo. Ten thousand doses of vaccines were made available to them.
Serbia, geared towards Russian and Chinese vaccine manufacturers and one of the leading countries in anti-Covid vaccination, has donated vaccines to North Macedonia, Montenegro and Bosnia. More than 1.3 million inhabitants of this small Balkan country, which counts 7 million, received one dose of vaccine and nearly one million two doses.
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