December 4 (SeeNews) - Serbia has received the first doses of Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine for laboratory tests, Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic has said.
The first 20 doses of the vaccine were delivered to Serbia's Medicines and Medical Devices Agency on December 3, Vucic said in a video file posted on the YouTube channel of public broadcaster RTS on Thursday.
"Our experts have time to examine it in the coming days and weeks and say whether we can accept it or not," Vucic said.
The Russian vaccine will be tested in Serbia in parallel with the one developed by US-based pharmaceutical company Pfizer and German biotechnology company BioNTech, he noted.
On Wednesday, a representative of Serbia's Medicines and Medical Devices Agency said Pfizer and BioNTech applied for the registration of their COVID-19 vaccine in Serbia.
Serbia had agreed the delivery of 1.8 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech by the end of 2021, and is also in talks with UK-based AstraZeneca, as well as Russian and Chinese companies for the supply of vaccines, Vucic said last month.