The shocking announcement from the Zaev Government that the earliest Macedonia will receive the coronavirus vaccine will be in the first months of 2021 caused outrage in the public. The Government was reduced to turning to Bulgaria to beg for a share of its vaccines, which the Borisov Government offered yesterday.

Zaev and his Healthcare Minister Filipce are waiting for someone above to solve the problem for them. They left the country without sufficient testing kits when every other country was creating a detection system, and now this. As a result, we have the worst mortality rate in the region and a major economic recession. Filipce today acknowledged that he has no idea when will we receive the doses from Bulgaria. What happens if Bulgaria uses up its doses or changes its mind? How many lives will be lost because Filipce is incompetent, said VMRO-DPMNE spokesman Naum Stoilkovski.

The US and the UK are already vaccinating their citizens, and European Union members are closely behind, due only to delays in approval of the vaccine. In the region, Serbia is beginning vaccinating tomorrow.