The Government of Montenegro stated that 24,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine have arrived in Montenegro under the Covax vaccine-sharing scheme.
“Vaccines were purchased under the Covax scheme and were approved by the World Health Organization, which is the leading organization in the United Nations system on vaccines,” the government wrote on Twitter.
Recall that earlier Montenegro receivedthe Russian Sputnik V vaccine, as well as the ChineseSinopharm.
In addition, North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev held a phone conversation with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on March 27.
On his Facebook page, the politician said that the head of the European Commission stated that in April the European Union will allocate 651,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine to the countries of the Western Balkans. The population of the six countries in the region — Kosovo, Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and North Macedonia — is approximately 18 million people.
As of today, in Montenegromore than 18,000 people have been vaccinatedwith one dose and more than 2,500 with two doses. The number of new cases over the past 24 hours was 335. 460 people have recovered.