Zagreb Mayor Tomislav Tomasevic announced on Tuesday that next year the city authorities plan to absorb 1.35 billion kuna from EU funds, which is 40 percent more compared to 2020, and added that, with the introduction of new locations, the number of vaccinated Zagreb citizens has doubled.

“Our policy is to absorb as much money from funds to alleviate the city budget,” Tomasevic  told a regular press conference, adding that thanks to that money, huge changes would be visible next year already.

He announced that projects by the Croatian Natural History and Ethnographic museums would be financed from EU funds.

Tomasevic said that thanks to eight new vaccination locations, in less than two weeks the number of Zagreb citizens who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 has doubled, particularly those receiving the first dose. The number of daily vaccinations has increased to 3,800.

More than 20,000 citizens have been vaccinated at these locations, 13,000 have received the first dose while 19,500 citizens have been vaccinated at the location at the Zagreb Fair grounds, 13,000 of whom have received the first dose.