The first batch of 1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Beijing-based pharmaceutical company Sinopharm arrived in Serbia at 9:50 a.m. local time on Saturday.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, local officials, and Chinese Ambassador to Serbia Chen Bo received the consignment at Nikola Tesla International Airport in Belgrade.

Serbia has also purchased Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine as well as a jab jointly developed by America's Pfizer and Germany's BioNTech.