The Government of Bosnia's Federation entity approved on Tuesday the procurement of Sputnik V vaccines, which will be carried out by the Sarajevo-based Medimpex company.

According to the decision that the Government adopted in an urgent session Tuesday night, the FBiH Healthcare Institute will sign the contract with Medimpex, the only company that managed to file necessary documentation by Tuesday afternoon.

The company will purchase up to 500,000 vaccines and the first delivery containing at least 100,000 vaccines should be finalised three days after the signing of the contract.

The Government tasked the ad-hoc team in charge of the vaccine procurement to continue negotiating with other companies who asked for additional time to compile the documentation or with other potential contractors.