標題: Covid: How Serbia soared ahead in vaccination campaign [打印本頁] 作者: geemong 時間: 2021-2-10 12:30 標題: Covid: How Serbia soared ahead in vaccination campaign
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Covid: How Serbia soared ahead in vaccination campaign
Serbia's US-educated prime minister was the first European leader to receive
the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. The country's Russophile internal affairs minister rolled
up his sleeve for an armful of Sputnik V. And the health minister happily posed for his
injection with Sinopharm's coronavirus shot.
These photo-ops were a way of reassuring a sceptical Serbian population about
the safety of vaccinations. But they also illustrated an omnivorous approach to
procurement that has put Serbia at the front of the race to inoculate people
in continental Europe.
"Whether [vaccines] come from China, the US or EU - we don't care as long as they're
safe and we get them as soon as possible," Prime Minster Ana Brnabic tells the BBC.
"For us, vaccination is not a geopolitical matter. It is a healthcare issue."
Such pragmatism has paid off handsomely. Other countries in the Western Balkans
have struggled to secure any vaccine supplies, having placed their hopes on the EU
or the international Covax scheme. In contrast, Serbia looks on target to inoculate at
least a tenth of its population by the middle of February.
It is also speeding ahead of all the 27 EU member states - performing vaccinations
at around double the rate of Germany, Spain and Italy and four times the speed of
the Netherlands.
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