evidence: COVID vaccination has improved recently, although lagging the rest of Europe. By mid-June 2021, about nine percent of the population received a first dose of the vaccine and around 5 percent was fully vaccinated through the COVAX, the EU, and direct procurement programs. In addition, a portion of the population received the vaccine in neighboring countries. [...] Health: Additional health spending was reported at 1.4 percent of GDP in 2020. The state of health emergency triggered the implementation of a set of containment and mitigation measures, including strengthening laboratory diagnostic capacity, equipping treatment centers, improving drug availability, and the launch of a vast program to rehabilitate hospitals and to provide health centers with standard infrastructure to screen and treat people with COVID-19. As of June 10, 2021, there were 370,000 doses of COVID vaccines have been administrated so far. This accounts for 4.3 percent of the population that had received at least one vaccine dose, with 0.9 percent fully vaccinated. [...] The authorities launched a COVID-19 Vaccination Program targeting 60 percent of the population, about 8 million people, on 18 February 2021. As of June 29, 2021, the country had administered 770,709 1st doses and 544,888 2nd doses.