Serbian Health Minister Zlatibor Lončar said today that the conditions for the Chinese vaccine to be tested in Serbia have not been met.
Lončar told Pink television that the ministry will inform citizens when the vaccine "reaches a certain stage and requires testing in Serbia", but also when the vaccine meets all the requirements of the Serbian Medicines Agency.
"We are not some frivolous state that can function on some other principle, if all the existing rules are not respected," said the minister.
According to him, a safe vaccine against the coronavirus should be produced by the end of the year and the beginning of the next.
He repeated that Serbia will be among the first to receive a vaccine that is safe and meets all the conditions.
Lončar appealed to the citizens to receive the seasonal flu vaccine, which is expected from October 1, in order to avoid "a collision between the coronavirus and the seasonal flu".
The Chinese National Biotechnical Group (CNBG) and the Sinovak company announced earlier today that Serbia and Pakistan are among the countries that have agreed to participate in the third phase of clinical trials of their vaccines against the coronavirus.
As reported by Reuters and reported by N1, Chinese companies are looking for more data from abroad for the final approval of a potential vaccine, given that the number of new infections in China is decreasing.
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