Serbia ready to produce vaccine with Russia, Health Minister says

Speaking to the Russia-24 TV, he said his country "is open for cooperation with Russia. We would like that our two countries jointly work on producing the vaccine, but also in fighting the coronavirus and other diseases."

Loncar thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for enabling the research of the Sputnik V vaccine.

"No other state did it, but Russia. We have the laboratory which the quality of the Russian vaccine is being tested as we speak," Loncar said.