“SPUTNJIK” VACCINE IN SERBIA TODAY: Russians deliver 20 doses today, “Pfizer” submitted documents for their vaccine registration

Today, the Russians are sending 20 doses of their vaccine to the Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices of Serbia (ALIMS) for laboratory testing, while for the American-German vaccine, the day that Britain was the first in the world. In approving it, yesterday documentation was sent to ALIMS. registration in our country.

Thus, both bidders are complying with what was agreed on Tuesday with Prime Minister Ana Brnabić, who has the same goal as President Aleksandar Vučić: that Serbia provide a safe and effective vaccine as soon as possible.

ALIMS says that all procedures related to the control and registration of the possible vaccine against kovid will be carried out as soon as possible, because all the preparations for that have already been completed.

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The possibility of joint Russian-Serbian production of “satellites” was also opened, which Prime Minister Brnabić discussed with the Russian Minister of Industry and Trade. Both vaccines that we could get, as previously announced by President Aleksandar Vučić, for the vaccination of healthcare workers, perhaps even before the New Year, are already beginning to be widely used: “Pfizer / Biontekova” in Britain from early next week, when protection begins with the eastern competitive vaccine in Russia, whose president Vladimir Putin announced a mass vaccination yesterday.

Modern hospital room at Kovid hospital in Batajnica, Photo: Printskrin

The vaccine is the only thing that, with anti-epidemic measures, and the immunity already developed in a part of the population, can stop the coronavirus, which was confirmed in another 7,919 out of a total of 22,069 tested in Serbia yesterday. Although Mirsad Đerlek, Secretary of State of the Ministry of Health, expects the epidemic to calm down in seven to ten days, in which we lost another 52 people in 24 hours, while there are 270 more seriously ill with respirators, the condition is that the citizens show maximum responsibility and respect the measures, including those adopted today by the Government of Serbia, which will be valid from Friday. The ministers have before them a proposal to shorten the working day to 5 in the afternoon for everything except markets, pharmacies and gas stations, and close everything except these facilities and markets on weekends.

The aim is to slow the spread of the infection by limiting contacts and reducing pressure on hospitals, which are full in Belgrade. Yesterday, for the third time since the beginning of the epidemic, the Banjica Orthopedic Institute entered the covid system again, in order to amortize the influx of new patients until the opening of a new hospital in Batajnica, to which medical teams joined and soon the first patients.

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– It is necessary to enter the covid system for the third time because, above all, there is a lack of places in intensive care, while there are enough places in the departments of the health system at this time – says prof. Dr. Zoran Baščarević, Director of the Banjica Orthopedic Institute. – We are opening 17 intensive places and 30 rooms in the hospital, half of which is for oxygen therapy, and if necessary we will expand the capacities.

“Banjica” transferred his patients to the KCS and MMA Orthopedic Clinic yesterday morning, and Baščarević says that today three of his orthopedic surgeons are going to the MMA, which has a big problem with the orthopedic staff.

– At the moment, we miss the anesthesiologist more, because of the 18 we have, eight are infected – says Baščarević. – In the third wave of the epidemic, we had 65 infected employees and in the first two 30.

CRISIS STAFF MEMBER DR KON ORDERED COLLEAGUES FROM “UNITED AGAINST KOVID”

I will answer the allegations when the epidemic is announced

Crisis Staff MEMBER, epidemiologist Predrag Kon, responded yesterday to his “United Against Kovid” colleagues, who publicly sent him 50 questions six days ago, that he assumes unwavering personal responsibility and is ready to answer all your questions. after preservation. of life, when the epidemic subsides.

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Noting that all the problems are “useful, even malicious ones”, Kon told “United” – that they should continue to criticize, “but what we are currently experiencing is a historic struggle to save the lives of the Serbian population.” and that “many of the members of that initiative are also in that fight, so he listens to them with respect, although there is, unfortunately, politicking and some criticism that he rejects.”

“United”, who asked him if he had ever publicly distanced himself from inconsistent and contradictory statements by politicians and members of the Crisis Staff, if he considered himself responsible for the lack of evidence … Kon said that they too have a great responsibility in this time and expressed I hope you know.

At KBC “Dr. Dragiša Mišović”, with 1,222 employees, 72 doctors, nurses and technicians were infected with the corona virus.

– 356 patients are being treated here – says the deputy director of that health institution, Dr. Predrag Savić. – The situation in the hospital is extremely difficult, all places are full. There are 83 patients in intensive care units. The clinical picture is incomparably more difficult than in the previous two waves, so that hospital treatment lasts longer, on average about 12 days, but intubated patients remain more than a month.