January 4 (SeeNews) - North Macedonia has reached an agreement with U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer for the supply of 800,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses in 2021, the government said on Monday.
Pfizer will ship the first 5,850 vaccine doses to North Macedonia in February, with bigger deliveries are expected in March and April, the government said in a statement.
The country will receive refrigeration units to store the Pfizer vaccines in January.
Pfizer developed the vaccine together with German biotechnology company BioNTech.
North Macedonia's health minister Venko Filipce said last week that the government is also in talks for the delivery of more vaccine doses through European Union (EU) member states and through the COVAX system.