November 17 (SeeNews) - Serbia aims to procure up to 1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of the year, president Aleksandar Vucic has said.
"We will try to procure between 500,000 and 1 million vaccines by the end of the year to reduce the pressure on hospitals," Vucic said in a video file posted on the YouTube channel of private broadcaster TV Happy on Monday.
The provider of the vaccine does not matter for the Serbian government as long as the country's health authorities approve it, Vucic added.
Last week, Vucic said Serbia agreed the delivery of 1.8 million units of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by US-based pharmaceutical company Pfizer and German biotechnology company BioNTech by the end of 2021.
Serbia is also in talks with UK-based AstraZeneca, as well as Russian and Chinese companies for the delivery of COVID-19 vaccines, Vucic said in September.