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Europe's medical regulator is set to give its verdict on the safety of the AstraZeneca vaccine on Thursday, following a chaotic few weeks that has seen nations suspend its use over blood clot fears.

The World Health Organization on March 12 listed the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) for emergency use in all countries, saying that more than 335 million jabs have been safely administered worldwide to date.

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.

"It depends on people's behavior. We know what those measures are: physical distance, wearing a mask, hand hygiene and cough hygiene. If someone is ill, their contacts should be isolated and quarantined," Marian Ivanusa said during a guest appearance on RTS.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic arrived by plane in Sarajevo on Tuesday with 10,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses for Bosnia and Herzegovina, which has been struggling to procure any COVID-19 vaccines.

At the time, media reports indicated that another 200,000 doses of the Russian vaccine would arrive by the end of the month, alongside 200,000 to 250,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine and some 23,000 doses of Pfizer, which would be distributed across Bosnia.

Only five years later, the whole world was struck by a coronavirus pandemic - and countries were desperately struggling to secure vaccines for their populations.

Unfortunately, the EU did not understand the vaccine race and opted for a "no urgency" attitude. The UK, on the other hand, put a venture capitalist specializing in biosciences in charge of its vaccine program.

Asked to comment on the consideration of the ban on the export of vaccines from the EU and the fact that the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was vaccinated with a Chinese vaccine, and the question whether the EU is falling into chaos, Vui answered that it does not apply to Serbia.

The Sputnik V vaccines, 100.000 doses for revaccination, were delivered by Air Serbia plane.
Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Botsan Kharchenko and Serbian Minister of Health Zlatibor Loncar were present.

However, Sarajevo responds that in the absence of the announced deliveries, Bosnia-Herzegovina could seek justice in court.