The Serbian authorities received a shipment of 50,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine at Belgrade airport on Monday.

Minister without portfolio Nenad Popovic said that Serbia is the only European country which has been given approval by the Russian authorities for deliveries of large quantities of the vaccine. “Russia is carefully following the vaccination process in Serbia under the leadership of President (Aleksandar) Vucic,” the minister said.

He said that Serbia has contracts for two million doses of the Russian vaccine and added that this amount will be delivered by mid-April at the latest.