January 18 (SeeNews) - North Macedonia will receive at least 8,000 of the doses of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine which Serbia has ordered to the manufacturer, the government in Skopje said on Monday.
The delivery was agreed by Serbia's president Aleksandar Vucic and North Macedonia's prime minister Zoran Zaev on Monday morning, North Macedonia's government said in a press release.
The details of the distribution of the vaccines will be determined during the day, Zaev said, adding that Skopje will pay the purchase price for the vaccine doses.
Zaev and Vucic also discussed the potential supply of vaccines from other producers which Serbia has ordered, provided the respective contracts allow for such a transfer, Zaev said.
Earlier this month, North Macedonia reached an agreement with Pfizer for the supply of 800,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses in 2021. Pfizer will ship the first 5,850 doses to North Macedonia in February, with bigger deliveries expected in March and April.
The health authorities in Serbia started the Covid-19 immunisation of its citizens with the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech on December 24. Serbia has also signed agreements to receive doses of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine, as well as vaccines produced by AstraZeneca and Moderna.