The Croatian capital city on Monday started rolling out vaccines against COVID-19, and out of 500 general practitioners in the city, 400 have expressed their readiness to administer doses during this mass vaccination campaign.

The head of the Dr. Andrija Stampar Teaching Institute of Public Health, Zvonimir Sostar, told the Croatian radio on Monday morning that of those 400 vaccine administrators, 35% said they would inoculate patients in their offices in primary care centers, while 65 percent said they would do that in the 19 venues designated in Zagreb for mass vaccination.

On Friday, 12,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine were distributed to primary care centers and venues for mass vaccination.

Sostar said that the first shipments of Moderna for the City of Zagreb could be expected today or tomorrow.

AstraZeneca vaccines do not need any particular conditions for storage, while Moderna jabs must be frozen during the distribution, he added.

If everything goes according to the plans of the city health authorities, 17,000 residents in Zagreb can be inoculated against coronavirus this week.