Vaccination to Begin in Slovenia, Croatia Next Week, Followed by the Rest of the Region Later

COVID-19 vaccine(AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Vaccination against Covid-19 in Croatia and Slovenia will commence symbolically at the same time as other members of the EU on Dec. 27, Dec. 28 and Dec. 29 and likely in the first quarter of 2021 in the rest of the region, BETA's correspondents reported on Dec. 22.

Croatia will get he Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. As in other EU countries, vaccination will begin on Dec. 27 and Dec. 28. The first symbolic quantities of the vaccine, 9,750 doses, will be spread out first among the most vulnerable - people in nursing homes and health workers working with Covid-19 patients. Slovenia, too, will receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and vaccination will symbolically begin in Dec. 27, Dec. 28 and Dec. 29 like in the rest of the EU.

It is unknown when Montenegro could receive the vaccine and the type of vaccine it will get. The new director of the Montenegrin Public Health Institute, Igor Galic, has said that vaccination could begin "in the first quarter of next year, maybe before that."

Bosnia and Herzegovina is also set to receive the vaccine in the first quarter of 2021. The country has joined the COVAX global mechanism and 1,232,000 doses have been ordered which is enough for 20 percent of the population.