Spit roast offer with vaccination

KRAGUJEVAC: Get a Covid19 vaccine and you will be served a plate of spitroast ox or wild game goulash for free, in the Serbian city of Kragujevac.

Restaurateur Stavro Raskovic offered the popular local dishes yesterday as his way of promoting vaccination and campaigning for the full reopening of the country’s restaurants, cafes and bars which can only serve patrons outdoors.

Lockdowns in 2020 and partial restrictions this year, had driven Biblioteka kod Milutina (Milutin’s Library) restaurant to the brink, Raskovic said, as dozens lined up to get their jab and a plate of charcoalroasted meat.

‘‘Our trade, catering, has been particularly hit . . . and if this [vaccination] is the way out, then we wanted to contribute,’’ he said.

Local health authorities have turned the main restaurant’s hall into a vaccination point to deliver shots made by Pfizer/BioNtech and China’s Sinopharm.