Tag: vaccines
World 26.01.21 | 10:14

V4: Brussels is secretive about vaccine procurement contracts

“The EU intends to enforce the contracts signed by the pharmaceutical industry,” the European Council President said on Sunday, reacting to the delays announced by several manufacturers in the delivery of contracted coronavirus vaccines. The V4 news agency has repeatedly contacted the European...
Macedonia 25.01.21 | 20:08

No EC timeline on vaccines for Macedonia

Deputy PM for European Affairs Nikola Dimitrov and Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani, who met Monday with European Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič, were not given a specific timeline when Macedonia could expect vaccines from the EU, MIA reports from Brussels. Sources from the European...
Macedonia 25.01.21 | 14:14

Mickoski: The Government is not competent even to receive donated vaccines

The Government is not prepared to even accept a donation, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski said, after it was revealed that Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce did not organize the necessary logistics and legal requirements for the proposed donation of coronavirus vaccines from Serbia. While almost...
Macedonia 25.01.21 | 10:13

Macedonian tourists likely won’t get the vaccines in time for the summer season

Desperate to avoid a repeat of last year’s tourist season, hit by the coronavirus epidemic, Greece is pushing for vaccinations and Covid passports. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that he wants the whole of the EU to introduce certificates that would fast track travel for citizens who had...
Macedonia 22.01.21 | 15:21

Filipce rejects Serbian offer to have staff vaccinated there, insists he will make the Pfizer vaccine available in Macedonia

Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce insisted that there are no legal issues with the use of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine in Macedonia and turned down a proposal from Serbia to have Macedonian medical staff and at-risk citizens vaccinated there. Serbia promised to give 8,000 vaccines to Macedonia, which...
Macedonia 21.01.21 | 17:27

Nikolov: The Government seems to care more about the provision from the vaccines that making it available

The priority of the Government seems to be to decide which company will be allowed to import the vaccines and turn a profit on them, rather than prepare for their distribution, said doctor Igor Nikolov, head of the VMRO-DPMNE committee on healthcare. His comments come after the shocking announcement...
Macedonia 19.01.21 | 19:46

Commissioner Varhelyi announced an EU mechanism to bring vaccines to the Balkans

European Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi announced a mechanism that will help bring coronavirus vaccines to the Balkans, where the countries are badly lacking in procurement and distribution. To ensure united front to beat COVID19 and early access to vaccines, EU Commission will set up mechanism...
Macedonia 19.01.21 | 10:18

Vucic on vaccine supply to Macedonia: What would be worth it if we are healthy and the neighbors had problems?

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic commented on the supply of Covid-19 vaccines to Macedonia this morning. When asked by a reporter why he did that, Vucic said: What would it be worth if we were healthy and the neighbors had problems, said Vucic, who believes Zaev’s resourcefulness contributed...
Macedonia 18.01.21 | 10:09

VMRO-DPMNE: Filipce is now lying about the refrigerators for storing vaccines

Venko Filipce is now lying about the refrigerators in which the corona vaccines should be stored. While the citizens of Europe and the world are getting vaccinated against the corona, choosing which vaccine they want to get vaccinated with, Filipce cannot procure refrigerators for storing the vaccines,...
Macedonia 17.01.21 | 12:00

Macedonia drops to last in the region in terms of vaccinations

Discussing the uneven start to coronavirus vaccination in the Balkans, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said that Macedonia, which is now lagging behind Albania and hasn’t done even token vaccinations, was promised only 100 vaccines from Bulgaria – and didn’t even get that. Top Macedonian...
Macedonia 14.01.21 | 17:22

Bulgaria fails to give vaccines to Filipce, despite his begging

All the COVID-19 vaccines arriving in the country will be certified and safe. The application plan will be designed according to the distribution plan, said Venko Filipce on Thursday. We have been communicating intensively with the “Pfizer” company in the past period because at this moment...
Balkans 11.01.21 | 10:12

Albania to begin vaccinations as Macedonia lags behind its neighbors

Albania is the latest neighboring country that beat Macedonia to the begin its coronavirus vaccination process. Of all our neighbors, only Kosovo remains yet to begin the process. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said that he has secured 500,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine and that the use of the initial...
Macedonia 06.01.21 | 19:51

“By the time we receive vaccines we will achieve collective immunity”

Macedonia will be the last in the region to receive coronavirus vaccines, the bulk of them expected to arrive by the end of 2021, when we will achieve collective immunity, said opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski in his Netpress interview, in which he accused the Zaev led Government of badly failing...
Macedonia 04.01.21 | 21:58

Minister Filipce: Number of cases is going down, but there is no room to relax restrictions

Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce said that the number of coronavirus cases is going down but there is no room to reduce the restrictions. He pormised that Macedonia will receive 5,850 doses of the Pfizer vaccine in February, and 17,550 in March with at least additional 17,550 in April. Filipce is under...
Macedonia 03.01.21 | 16:11

Zaev claims that Macedonia will receive Pfizer vaccines in February

Pressed for answers after his humiliating failure to provide coronavirus vaccines, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev today said that he is in talks with the Pfizer corporation, and expects the first doses in February. If it happens, it will be up to two months after most neighboring countries already began vaccinations. The...
Macedonia 01.01.21 | 16:52

Minister Filipce says he knows the number of Pfizer vaccines Macedonia will get, but that he has to keep it a secret

Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce said that he can’t reveal the number of Pfizer vaccines Macedonia will receive because he was asked by the company to keep the number a secret. Filipce was embarrassed after he failed to provide vaccines as other neighboring countries, both in and out of the EU, already...
Macedonia 30.12.20 | 11:15

“Zaev won’t buy the Russian vaccine but has no problem exporting his own products to Russia”

One of the major embarrassments for the Zaev regime in the past weeks was its inability to procure the Western developed coronavirus vaccines. Macedonia is left waiting for March as the earliest date when it can expect some vaccines, or relying on its neighbors such as Bulgaria, who promised to share...
Balkans 27.12.20 | 10:47

Scandal in Bulgaria: Covid-19 vaccines transported by hot dog trucks

Just two hours after the arrival of the first shipment of coronavirus vaccines in Bulgaria, they were distributed from Sofia to Plovdiv. The vaccines were distributed in a transport vehicle transporting deli products, accompanied by four police vehicles. The vaccines were transported to the Regional...
Balkans 25.12.20 | 18:07

Bulgaria and Greece receive the first shipment of coronavirus vaccines tomorrow

Greece expects to receive its shipment of coronavirus vaccines tomorrow, and to start inoculating the most critical categories of citizens on Sunday. The same day Bulgaria will begin its vaccination campaign. Greek hospitals will open over 1,000 vaccination sites and will begin by inoculating the Prime...
Macedonia 25.12.20 | 09:32

Nikoloski: The authorities are so incompetent that until now they didn’t know that with the current law they can’t procure vaccines

The Vice President of VMRO-DPMNE, Aleksandar Nikoloski, accused the government on Alpha TV’s “Zaspij ako mozes” show of its incompetence to procure vaccines and to start the immunization of the population as soon as possible. How can Vucic say that there is no price for vaccines, while...
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