Preparations for the construction of a factory in which Chinese Sinofarm vaccines would be produced have begun in Serbia. According to Serbian officials, the factory will be built in cooperation with partners from China and the United Arab Emirates.
Serbia has interstate agreements with both China and the Emirates on cooperation, which enables investments to be realized according to an accelerated procedure.
During his official visit to the Emirates, the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, announced the construction of a vaccine factory in which production would begin in mid-October this year.
The plan is for the factory to produce more than two million doses of Sinofarm vaccine per month, which would be used for the needs of Serbia, but would also be exported, primarily to the countries of the region.
In the first three or four months after the opening of the factory, the Chinese vaccine would only be packaged in Serbia until the technology for one component is mastered.
Vucic said that the production of the Chinese vaccine would provide Serbia with a long-term and strategic supply of the vaccine and protection of the health of the population, because it is estimated that the problem of infection with the Covid 19 virus and its mutations will not be solved in the near future and that vaccination will be a key national security issue.
About 2.1 million people have been vaccinated in Serbia, and most of them have received the Sinofarm vaccine, the quality and safety of which Serbian experts have a high opinion of.
So far, 1.5 million Chinese vaccines have arrived in Serbia, and a new contract has been signed with Sinofarm for the delivery of another two million doses of vaccines.
Vucic also attended the signing of that contract via a video link, and he talked with the representatives of Sinofarm about the construction of a vaccine factory, but also about the reconstruction and equipping of hospitals in Serbia.
The Prime Minister of Serbia, Ana Brnabić, said that five locations in the vicinity of Belgrade where a vaccine factory would be built are being considered.
“We really have to do it quickly. The most important thing at this moment is to have completely clean property-legal relations in order to start construction as soon as possible,” said Brnabic, Beta reports.
