Belgrade, Nov.28, 2009 (Serbia Today) - The first shipment of 140,000 doses of ‘Novartis’ vaccines against the new flu shall be delivered to Serbia from the company’s factory in Siena, Italy on November 28 while the remaining 500,000 doses shall arrive on December 8th, according to Serbian daily Blic.
The vaccine is arriving earlier because it is to undergo analysis at the National Laboratory and Agency for Medicine so that vaccination can begin in the middle of December. The analysis shall have to be made in accordance with present law governing medication importation into Serbia. This law is to be changed so to accept registration of a medication by a relevant EU body.
Further deliveries shall be order as agreed with the manufacturer.Serbia Health Minister Tomica Milosavljevic said yesterday that “there is not a single argument against vaccination.”
Until yesterday there have been 356 registered cases of new flu. Seventeen people died while 477 people are presently hospitalized.
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