Vice Minister of Health and Social Protection, Eugena Tomini has declared Monday that Albania currently has 620.000 doses of stock vaccine that are expected to be applied for the third dose in certain categories that have been approved to become part of this vaccination plan.

In the Committee on Health and Social Affairs, Tomini stated that Sinovac doses will be applied in the third dose. She stressed that all those who have taken the first doses of Astra Zeneca will not take Sputnik and vice versa.

"We have adhered to the target for vaccination. Recommendations are being accelerated towards the action plan. Regarding mortality, mortality rate and all other data are accurate obtained from all structures that monitor patients in terms of COVID.

The centralization of cases in COVID 1 and COVID 3 has outlined throughout the phase of the pandemic, passing step by step depending on the capacities exhausted at the central level, in the regional hospitals. As for the Sinovac vaccine, you know even though we are very often bent on its effectiveness. It is the vaccine on the WHO list of emergency vaccines.

Approved by the US for green pass. It should be noted that currently the limit of 1 million vaccines that have come from Sinovac to be applied in Albania has been exceeded. We currently have over 1 million Pfizer vaccines Each vaccine applied to enter Albania at certain times of the pandemic, has come with the approval of the technical vaccination committee which has recommended their application in different stages of the pandemic. The desire and goodwill to have the Pfizer vaccine is also today’s meeting for the normative act.

Regarding the implementation of the protocol regarding the two doses, for those who have applied Sinovac we have the basic recommendations that have been implemented with a specific guide for all doctors in Albania. Individuals who have applied Sinovac will continue with the planned calendar. If Sinovac vaccine is available, it will be given as a third dose. Currently there is a stock, over 620 thousand doses of vaccine, including the doses of available vaccine.

"Astra Zeneca will not be applied to the entire population that has applied Sputnik. Conversely for all those who have taken Astra Zeneca, the third dose of Sputnik will not be applied. Every recommendation has been followed step by step", Tomini declared

However, the Democrat MP Tritan Shehu reacted harshly, stressing that the use of Sinovac for a third dose is the biggest irresponsibility that can exist.

"The third dose Sinovac. This is the biggest irresponsibility you can do. I had never heard of this. I just did not expect this from you today. "I am very sorry to hear this word", said Shehu.