The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen confirmed on Tuesday that Kosovo will receive 95,000 doses of vaccines against COVID-19.
“We stand alongside our partners in the Western Balkans, as I told to [Kosovo’s Prime Minister] Albin Kurti, 95,000 doses of vaccines financed by the EU will arrive in Kosovo from May until the end of August,” von der Leyen wrote in a Twitter post.
“We are together in this,” she added.
Kosovo was the last Balkan country to start vaccination. The country is yet to receive the allocated 100,800 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine through COVAX, of which it has received only 24,000 doses in a first and only shipment. The remaining supply should arrive by the end of May, while half of the doses already received have been administered to priority groups.
Several hundreds of doctors from Kosovo have been vaccinated by Albania in its northern town of Kukes.
Last week, the President of Kosovo Vjosa Osmani said that Kosovo can not talk about the dialogue with Serbia while there are people dying due to a lack of vaccines.
