December 18 (SeeNews) - Serbia expects to receive the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech next week, the government said on Friday.
The first 5,000 doses of the vaccine will arrive in Serbia on Monday or Tuesday and they will be used to protect the elderly people in nursing homes, health minister Zlatibor Loncar said in a government statement.
The Serbian medicines agency issued an import permit for the vaccine on Thursday, Loncar said.
Earlier this month, US-based pharmaceutical company Pfizer and German biotechnology company BioNTech applied for the registration of their COVID-19 vaccine in Serbia. The country also received the first 20 doses of Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine for laboratory tests.