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A woman casts her ballot at a polling station for the parliamentary elections in Sofia, Bulgaria, 04 April 2021. EPA-EFE/VASSIL DONEV

Equally importantly, however, in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, China has embraced a pro-active foreign policy and became part of the calculus for regional development in a number of areas of the world.

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

The head of the Anti-Corruption Commission in North Macedonia, Biljana Ivanovska, on Friday said that before launching an official inquiry into the country's COVID vaccine troubles, they had "started collecting information on the affair" in which Health Minister Venko Filipce is accused of trying to procure Chinese vaccines through a questionable intermediary firm.

After meeting the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Muhammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Thursday, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said the two countries had agreed to start producing the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine in Serbia by October 15.

- Two weeks after Hungary announced that it had reached a deal with China's Sinopharm, the first batch of Sinopharm vaccine arrived in Budapest on Feb. 16, which will enable a mass immunization of 2.5 million people.

Doctor who led the clinical trial of the Chinese vaccine "Sinopharm" spoke about the former president before the Peruvian parliament, saying that Vizcarra himself asked to be vaccinated, even though the vaccine was still in the trial phase.

The small Balkan country has inoculated more than 450,000 of its population of seven million in almost two weeks, a rate that exceeds all other states in Europe apart from Britain, according to the scientific publication Our World in Data.

Referring to the data from the "Our World in Data" page, the portal adds that Croatia is at the bottom.
By Monday, 58.077 people had been vaccinated in Croatia, according to a government tweet, while in Serbia the number was almost ten times higher.

Until this cross-section, 9.099 people were tested.
5.362 people were hospitalized, and currently 201 people are on respirators.
To date, a total of 371.216 cases have been registered in Serbia, and 3.730 people have died as a result of 19 cases.