“At this moment I can be satisfied with the inoculation. Interest is high, I can say that (COVID) vaccines are in-demand. This shows that citizens have recognised the importance of the vaccination and that they have placed their trust in science, experts and medicine,” the minister told the national broadcaster HTV on Monday evening.
He reassured the public that the government had done its utmost to ensure COVID jabs for the population.
He said that after today’s agreement with the European Commission, Zagreb can count on an additional amount of 700,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
Beroš said that until the end of March, Croatia will likely have been provided with 264,000 Pfizer vaccine jabs.
On Tuesday, the first batch of vaccines developed by Moderna are expected in Croatia, and 52,000 doses of this vaccine are likely to be procured by Croatia until the end of February.
Provided that AstraZeneca vaccine gets approved on 29 January, Croatia can count on the procurement of 1.7 million dozes of that vaccination.
In this case, the minister expects a million citizens to be vaccinated until the end of March.
Commenting on lower new infection and hospitalisation numbers, Beros told the national broadcaster (HTV) that there was still no room for relaxing anti-epidemic rules considering the third wave of the pandemic in other countries as well as considering the specific situation in the quake-hit Sisak-Moslavina County.
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