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China Daily | Updated: 2021-02-16 14:36
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A worker performs a quality check in the packaging facility of Chinese vaccine maker Sinovac Biotech, developing an experimental coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine, during a government-organized media tour in Beijing on Sept 24, 2020. [Photo/Agencies]

Shortage of approved vaccines prompts demands for more alternative solutions

BELGRADE, Serbia-As Hungary joined Serbia in spearheading mass inoculation with China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine in Europe, other European countries are struggling against a vaccine delivery crisis as they search for a way out of lockdowns and into economic recovery.

In around a month, 14 percent of Serbia's 6.5-million population received their first doses of vaccine against COVID-19, thanks to the 1.5 million China-made doses.

Following its neighbor, Hungary on Jan 31 announced it has reached a deal with Sinopharm, which will enable a mass immunization of its 2.5 million people.

As the first shipment is supposed to arrive this week, Hungary will become the first member in the European Union to sign up for Chinese vaccines.

"This deal will speed up vaccination, which could save the lives of thousands of people and contribute to lifting restrictions sooner," said Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto.

German Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Jan 31 he is "open" to the use of vaccines from Russia or China in Germany. Markus Soeder, minister-president of the German state of Bavaria, called on European regulators to test Russian and Chinese vaccines "as soon as possible".

A shipment of Sinopharm vaccines will arrive in Bosnia and Herzegovina soon as one of its two entities, Republika Srpska (RS), ordered them on Feb 8, Minister of Health and Social Welfare of RS Alen Seranic said.

RS institutions have been following all the scientific effects and references of vaccines from all producers, including those from China. The efficiency, quality, and safety of vaccines are the three criteria that all vaccines entering RS must fulfill, said Seranic.

"Based on other countries' experiences, where Chinese vaccines have been already approved, we decided that we also need to acquire a certain number of vaccines from China," Seranic said.

"We already ordered vaccines for 20 percent of our population," he said, adding doses from China "will make us happy to be able to offer different kinds of vaccines to the citizens".

Earlier this month, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron expressed the openness of their countries to any vaccines approved by the European Medicines Agency, which has so far only given the green light to vaccines of Pfizer/BioNTech,Moderna and AstraZeneca.

The shortage of approved vaccines in Europe has been drawing increasing public criticism and prompting demands for alternative solutions.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday the EU is lagging behind in combating the virus and was "too optimistic" about mass production of the vaccine.

It takes an additional three or four weeks to get the EMA's approval, which is "an investment in trust and safety," she said, while announcing a new regulatory framework as a future solution to speed up the process.

But the public in the EU member countries seems to be running short on patience, as saving lives and ending lockdowns have become imperative.

"If there are no vaccines, we cannot vaccinate," Todor Kantardjiev, director of the Bulgarian National Center of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, said last month while complaining about the poor progress of the inoculation program.

"The state will look for other options and we will not hesitate to buy any vaccine that is effective and harmless and that is recognized by Europe, including, of course, from Russia and China," Kantardjiev said.

In Serbia, the Sinopharm vaccine was welcomed and enjoys full trust. The early inoculation is seen as an opportunity, said Ivona Ladjevac, head of the center for the Belt and Road Initiative at the Institute of International Politics and Economics in Serbia.

"We should use this opportunity," said Ladjevac. "Serbia can do something like Israel, the first country that will finish this mass vaccination and get back to normal. We can achieve something like that too."

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