Milorad Dodik, the Serb member of Bosnia and Herzegovina's tripartite Presidency and its current Chairman, said he would choose Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus once his doctor recommends him to get vaccinated.

Dodik, who was hospitalised because of Covid-19 in late December 2020 and was receiving medical treatment for 16 days, said he still has antibodies from the infection with the coronavirus.

Speaking of the vaccination process in Republika Srpska (RS), Bosnia's Serb-majority region where Dodik was elected for the Presidency, he said another shipment of the Russia-made vaccine should arrive there these days.

“Republika Srpska did everything to make a reservation for and reach a framework agreement with Russian producers for 1.1 million vaccines,” he told public broadcaster RTRS.