Cancer vaccines

Greece expects to receive 300 thousand Covid-19 vaccine doses in the first tranche which means that 150,000 people will be vaccinated initially (vaccines will require two doses per patient), government spokesman Stelios Petsas told Parapolitika radio on Wednesday.

Petsas said that the immunisation program will be launched in December or January.

She stated that they are monitoring the situation in the whole of Europe, the introduction and relaxation of measures in the EU and beyond, and that they should be guided by that in relation to our situation.

President Klaus Iohannis voiced himself positive of the success of the vaccination campaign against the novel coronavirus, maintaining that the vaccines are "efficient" and "safe." "This week I already plan to visit a vaccination center and this way, the world will be able to see that we are not talking about a theory, but about a practical approach.

The Ministry of Health organised a working seminar on Thursday, attended by Romanian and foreign specialists, patients, family doctors, to prepare an action plan to inform and educate the population regarding the vaccine against HPV, but also about vaccination in general, shows a press release sent AGERPRES.

Sonja Kostic, an oncologist from the Bezanijska Kosa Clinical Centre in Belgrade, told BIRN on Monday that patients are now able to apply to be considered for treatment with the Cuban vaccine.

"The vaccine has arrived and now we just need to define who can take the vaccine since it is only for lung cancer patients who are in the fourth [final] stage of the illness," Kostic said.

Certain quantities of CimaVax-EGF, a Cuban-developed drug used for lung cancer therapy, will soon be available in Serbia.

A memorandum on the procurement of 1,680 units of the CimaVax-EGF vaccine has been signed between the Cuban CIMAB and the Serbian Institute of Virology, Vaccines and Sera Torlak, the Ministry of Health said on its official website.