News in English     | 01.03.2021. 14:36 |

Banja Luka receives 20,000 Sputnik V doses

FENA Lejla Nuhanovic

BANJA LUKA, March 1 (FENA) – Banja Luka received today 20,000 doses of the Russian vaccine Sputnik V against Covid-19 which finally enables the beginning of mass vaccination of the population in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

However, only persons living in the Republika Srpska entity can receive this vaccine.

Entity government officials, led by Prime Minister Radovan Višković, welcomed a truckload of vaccines.

As it was announced, the priority groups for vaccination are people older than 65, health workers and nursing homes.

Negotiations are currently underway with Russia on the delivery of additional doses of the Sputnik V vaccine next week, and Prime Minister Višković expects another 100,000 Russian vaccines to arrive in RS by the end of March.

After the delay in the delivery of vaccines ordered by the COVAX mechanism, the authorities in RS started direct negotiations with the Russian company, and at the time 400 thousand doses were ordered.

The Russian vaccine is given in two doses 21 days apart and is similar in composition to that produced by Oxford/AstraZeneca.

Bosnia and Herzegovina ordered 1.23 million doses of vaccines through the COVAX mechanism but have not yet received any.

(FENA) L. N.

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