Skopje, 19 November 2021 (MIA) – For months we’ve been living in a difficult situation brought on by the coronavirus. This enemy has attacked the whole world, so international cooperation is crucial in the fight against the coronavirus, Poland’s First Lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda said Friday during a visit to the Institute for Transfusion Medicine with Macedonian counterpart Elizabeta Georgievska and Health Minsiter Venko Filipche. On Thursday, 200,070 Pfizer jabs donated by Poland were transferred to the Institute for storage. During the visit, Kornhauser-Duda encouraged the unvaccinated to get jabbed. Gjorgievska thanked Poland at the event for the donation and called on citizens to get vaccinated, as the only way to end the pandemic. “The donation is more than just a gesture of friendship between North Macedonia and Poland, but a sign of solidarity, very much needed amid this global crisis. In the past two years, we’ve all had contact with COVID. A lot of us lost family members and friends to the pandemic, but vaccination is so now the only way out of this situation. So, I encourage everyone to get vaccinated as soon as possible, to avoid a rise in new cases,” Gjorgievska noted. Minister Filipche also thanked Poland for the donation and stressed the pandemic demonstrated the importance of solidarity and assistance. “A lot of countries helped each other. Poland was one of the first to announce a solidarity mechanism for donation of vaccines, after which Austria took over as coordinator via the EU system. This batch of 200,000 Pfizer jabs doubles our vaccine stock, for a total of 470,000 shots at our disposal. This is enough for citizens to get vaccinated and lower the risk of the number of new cases spiking, which will put serious pressure on hospitals,” Filipche said. He underlined belief that citizens will understand that new measures were necessary in order to protect the health system and health workers who have worked tirelessly for the past two years.