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Immunologist Dušan Popadić estimated that immunization in Serbia is going very well relative to other countries, but that it is insufficient according to need and that more than 80 percent of the population is still not protected one year after the onset of infection.
“Approximately 713,000 citizens received the second dose of the vaccine, only about 500,000 of them have passed three weeks since the second dose, when they are really protected, and that is below 10 percent of the population.” “And if we add another 500,000 of those who had the virus, that’s about a million people and yet more than 80 percent of citizens can get infected,” Popadić told RTS.
He added that the rate of vaccination should be accelerated, which, as he said, is “limited by the lack of vaccines around the world.”
Popadić, who is also a professor at the Belgrade Faculty of Medicine, hopes that the “weekend closure” will have a modest impact on the dissemination of the application, but, as he added, “such are the measures.”
“The production of vaccines in Serbia is great news,” Popadić said, adding that it is not only greater safety for citizens, but it is good to develop such technologies.
Regarding the possibility of introducing the EU covid passport, Popadić said that the vaccine “has the function of protecting citizens from diseases and not of providing them with travel” and that vaccines fulfill their function.
He told citizens that there was no need to search for antibodies and that they were protected from the disease three weeks after the second dose of the vaccine.
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