COVID-19 vaccination in Albania

Kosovo is the country with the largest share of receiving at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine in the Western Balkans. The country, which later launched mass immunization, quickly caught up, but also surpassed the former leader, Serbia, and Northern Macedonia and Montenegro, which managed to speed up their campaign in the summer, according to data from the Our World in Data platform.

Fully vaccinated travelers from dozens of more countries, including Turkey, will not be required to self-isolate in the U.K. starting next week, the British government has announced.

It is a regular delivery of vaccines from that manufacturer, 95.940 doses arrived in our country, while 2,340 doses arrived through the Austrian government.
98.280 doses of coronavirus vaccines from the Pfizer / BioNTech company arrived in Serbia today, the Ministry of Health announced.

A number of 60,000 doses of Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) COVID-19 vaccine will arrive on Thursday at the Cantacuzino National Institute for Medical-Military Research and Development in Bucharest, the National COVID-19 Vaccination Coordination Committee (CNCAV) informs.

Turkey has lowered the COVID-19 vaccination eligibility age to 30, the health minister announced on June 19.

"The age limit for vaccine appointments has been reduced to 30. People over 30 years old can make an appointment as of tomorrow," Fahrettin Koca wrote on Twitter.

Turkey's COVID-19 vaccine candidate has reached its final stage of human trials, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has said as the country is gearing up to give a boost to its inoculation drive.

A new batch of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine consisting of 964,080 doses is being brought to Romania today, according to the National COVID-19 Vaccination Coordination Committee (CNCAV). The vaccines will be delivered by air and will reach the airports of Otopeni, Cluj-Napoca and Timisoara. Shipment to storage centres is provided by the manufacturing company, including by land.

Turkey will administer 30 million doses of the Pzifer/BioNTech vaccines to 30 million people in June, the country's health minister has said.

The country is expected to receive those doses at the end of May or in early June.

Turkey's official Medicines and Medical Devices Agency said on April 30 that Turkey has granted emergency use authorization to Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine.

"Emergency use of Sputnik V vaccine was approved following the assessments and evaluations by our Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency," Fahrettin Koca said on Twitter.

Some 8,500 business people from all over the Western Balkan region got their first vaccine jab against COVID-19 in Serbia over the weekend

The remarkable initiative was organised by the Chamber of Commerce of Serbia whose head, Marko Cadez, told national broadcaster Radio Television of Serbia RTS that the action will be repeated.