The measures that the Commission for Infectious Diseases proposed to the Government - mandatory vaccination for health workers and unvaccinated administrators to be tested with a PCR test at least once every 72 hours to enter the workplace - fell into the water. The government has abandoned these two measures, and the reason is that there is a problem how it will be punished if someone is not tested and how this measure will be implemented, said the Minister of Health, Venko Filipce.

Health authorities will now try another measure to increase vaccination coverage. Each family doctor who achieves 70 percent of his patients to be vaccinated against covidium, will receive a bonus of 30 denars per patient. The money will be paid to the family doctors by the beginning of the summer. On average, every family doctor has between 1.000 and 2.500 patients, so the financial benefit is not to be neglected. The problem, however, is that GPs do not know how to influence hardliners and are determined not to vaccinate patients being treated in their surgeries.

- An additional measure that will make the vaccine mandatory is not excluded, but until it is checked we will remain with the existing measures, said Filipce, adding that it is too early for Northern Macedonia to introduce mandatory vaccination.