"The Czech Republic has ordered coronavirus vaccines for 11 million people ... The drug has been ordered from all manufacturing companies that are approved for supplies to the EU countries," Batyova quoted TASS as saying.

According to her, the Czech Ministry of Health has tripled the volume of orders for the supply of Pfizer and BioNTech. 

In addition, in the coming days, the country will begin to receive a vaccine against COVID-19 produced by the British-Swedish company AstraZeneca.

Earlier it was reported that the total number of cases of coronavirus in the Czech Republic exceeded 1 million.