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A third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine offers better protection against the coronavirus, Turkey's Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has said, urging people to get the booster shot.

Officials are considering widening the scope of the COVID inoculation program to start vaccinating children aged between 12 and 15 before schools reopen in early September, Professor Sema Turan from the Science Board has said.

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The new contingent of vaccines was welcomed by the Minister of Defense, Nebojsa Stefanovic, who especially thanked for the 200.000 doses donated by the Chinese army.

The United Arab Emirates have already completed the research and obtained the results of Sinopharm efficiency.

Bulgaria to Receive 1,259,728 Additional Vaccine Doses Starting from April

Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia and Slovakia will receive a total of 2,854,654 additional doses of vaccines as a sign of solidarity. This decision was reached yesterday at a meeting of EU ambassadors in Brussels, the Portuguese Presidency of the EU Council announced, as quoted by BTA.

A number of 432,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine will arrive on Friday at the "Cantacuzino" National Medical-Military Institute for Research-Development.

Foreign nationals, mainly from neighboring countries, flocked to Serbia after word spread that our western neighbor was offering free COVID-19 vaccines for foreigners.

The Serbian authorities have additional doses of AstraZeneca vaccine. Those wishing to get vaccinated are mainly from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and North Macedonia.

The President of Serbia, Mr. Aleksandar Vucic, together with the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China, Ms. Chen Bo attended the signing.

North Macedonia on Sunday received the first batch of 3,000 doses of Russian vaccine Sputnik V from a total order of 200,000 in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

A session of the Crisis Staff for the fight against the coronavirus epidemic, at which new measures are expected to be adopted, has been announced for today.