Serbia becomes first European country to use Chinese Covid-19 vaccine for mass roll-out


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BELGRADE (REUTERS) - Hundreds of members of Serbia's military lined up on Tuesday (Jan 19) in their camouflage uniforms at an exhibition hall in Belgrade where nurses injected them with a Chinese-made vaccine against Covid-19. Last week, Serbia received one million doses of Chinese Sinopharm's Covid-19 vaccine, becoming the first European country to start a mass inoculation programme with it. Serbia is vaccinating essential workers such as police officers, teachers and soldiers after, last month, starting to treat the elderly in care homes and medical workers with its supplies of vaccines developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, and Russia's Sputnik V...