31 May 2021

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic saw off today from the Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport an airplane with a donation of 100,000 Pfizer vaccines for citizens of the Czech Republic.

Czech Ambassador to Serbia Tomas Kuchta was also present at the ceremony.

At the session of 20 May, the Serbian government decided to donate 100,000 Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines to the Czech Republic, as a sign of solidarity with citizens of that country in the fight against the coronavirus epidemic.

Brnabic pointed out that by sending today's donation, the government of Serbia fulfilled the promise that President Aleksandar Vucic gave to Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis during his recent official visit to the Czech Republic.

We are very pleased to be able to help the Czech Republic. This is just another gesture of solidarity and commitment to our friendship and partnership, the Prime Minister said.

She wished Czech President Milos Zeman, the Czech government and the citizens of that country to defeat the coronavirus as soon as possible and for all of us to return to normal life and develop economically.

Brnabic stated that 2,533,844 adult citizens have been vaccinated with the first dose in Serbia so far, which is about 47 percent of the adult population, and 2,055,471 people have received the both doses, which is 38 percent of the total population.

The goal is to vaccinate more than 50 percent of the adult population with at least one dose by 21 June.

She announced that Serbia will donate 10,000 AstraZeneca vaccines to Montenegro, the Sarajevo Canton and Republika Srpska, and specified that our country has so far donated a total of 102,190 doses of the Pfizer, Sputnik V and AstraZeneca vaccines to the countries of the region.

The Prime Minister pointed out that Serbia is building a vaccine factory because it wants its citizens to be completely protected from COVID-19 and similar viruses in the future, as well as to be able to help countries in the region, Europe and the world.

According to her, if we need to help the region further or anyone else, we want to be able to do that, because until everyone has beaten the coronavirus, neither can we.

She added that the state wants to be sure that the citizens will be safe if it turns out that a third dose, the so-called booster vaccine, is needed, or if we need to be vaccinated again after a year or two.

Source: www.srbija.gov.rs

Photo: www.srbija.gov.rs