ZAGREB, 15 February, 2021 - Epidemiologist Branko Kolarić has said that 2% of Croatia's population has been vaccinated against COVID-19 so far and that the number of vaccinations would have been three times higher had the preordered amounts of vaccine been delivered on time.
"We have vaccinated around 2% of the population, and the number of those vaccinated would have been three times higher had we received the vaccine on time," Kolarić, who is a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Council, told the N1 broadcaster on Monday.
He dismissed claims that around 50% of the population had contracted the disease.
"Many other parameters are taken into account and the percentage of (those who have contracted the virus) is much lower, between 10 and 20% or 25% at the most," he said.
Asked about out-of-order vaccination, he said that it was not good but warned against making registers of vaccinated people public.
Kolarić also noted that one should not rush with possible new relaxation of current epidemiological restrictions, noting that most members of the government's Scientific Advisory Council were agreed on that.
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