The Croatian capital city on Monday started rolling out vaccines against COVID-19, and out of 500 general practitioners in the city, 400 have said they were ready to start administering doses during this mass vaccination campaign.

Of those 400 practitioners, over a third will vaccinate patients in their offices in primary care centres, while 65 percent will do it in the 19 venues designated in Zagreb for mass vaccination, said Zvonimir Sostar, head of the Dr Andrija Stampar Teaching Institute of Public Health.

On Friday, 12,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine were distributed to primary care centres and the venues for mass vaccination.

Sostar said that the first shipments of Moderna for the City of Zagreb could be expected on Monday or Tuesday, adding that AstraZeneca vaccines do not need any particular conditions for storage, while Moderna jabs must be frozen during the distribution.

If everything goes according to the plan devised by the city health authorities, 17,000 residents in Zagreb can be inoculated against coronavirus this week.