{"id":10645,"date":"2021-04-17T09:06:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T09:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=10645"},"modified":"2021-04-17T09:10:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T09:10:34","slug":"we-have-a-vaccine-budget-minister-vitia-negotiations-and-contracts-are-confidential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/we-have-a-vaccine-budget-minister-vitia-negotiations-and-contracts-are-confidential\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe have a vaccine budget\u201d, minister Vitia: Negotiations and contracts are confidential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A story published on local media claiming that the government of Prime Minister Albin Kurti has postponed the date to sign a contract with Pfizer\/BioNTech to secure COVID-19 vaccines brought the immediate reaction of health minister Arben Vitia as he addressed the country in a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the case as \u201chighly sensitive\u201d, minister Vitia said that the process is \u201cconfidential\u201d and that stories doing the roundabout on local media are \u201cuntrue\u201d and \u201cdamaging\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe story published by \u201cInsajderi\u201d is untrue, damaging, and malevolent. It is not true because those who claim to have secured official information are completely incorrect. We cannot talk about the progress we\u2019ve made in securing the vaccines because the matter at hand is strictly confidential\u201d, said Vitia.<\/p>\n<p>In pursuit of the questions posed by journalists, minister Vitia did not release any information over the companies involved in the negotiations, but guaranteed that the government has accorded a \u201csufficient budget\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a sufficient budget and budget has never been an issue when it comes to securing the vaccines\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion of the press conference, minister Vitia reached out to the prosecution office and urged them to investigate the fake news circulating in the media for what he described as a \u201cdelicate\u201d matter pertaining to the citizens\u2019 wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo\/2021\/04\/08\/covid-19-vaccine-to-rollout-on-citizens-above-the-age-of-85\/\">COVID-19 vaccine rolls out on citizens above the age of 85<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo\/2021\/04\/13\/berat-rukiqi-difficult-to-overcome-the-bad-economic-situation-without-vaccinations-balkan-talks\/\">Berat Rukiqi: Difficult to overcome the bad economic situation without vaccinations | Balkan Talks<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo\/2021\/04\/07\/osmanis-first-presidential-meeting-vaccines-against-covid-19-a-priority\/\">Osmani\u2019s first presidential meeting: \u2018Vaccines against COVID-19, our priority\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story published on local media claiming that the government of Prime Minister Albin Kurti has postponed the date to sign a contract with Pfizer\/BioNTech to secure COVID-19 vaccines brought the immediate reaction of health minister Arben Vitia as he addressed the country in a press conference. Referring to the case as \u201chighly sensitive\u201d, minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":10646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[150,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u201cWe have a vaccine budget\u201d, minister Vitia: Negotiations and contracts are confidential - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/we-have-a-vaccine-budget-minister-vitia-negotiations-and-contracts-are-confidential\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cWe have a vaccine budget\u201d, minister Vitia: Negotiations and contracts are confidential - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A story published on local media claiming that the government of Prime Minister Albin Kurti has postponed the date to sign a contract with Pfizer\/BioNTech to secure COVID-19 vaccines brought the immediate reaction of health minister Arben Vitia as he addressed the country in a press conference. 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