Slovakia will sell or donate 160,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine, mainly to Western Balkans countries, as the Government decided on Wednesday. A total of 14,214 people in Slovakia had applied for inoculation with Sputnik V as of Tuesday (June 22), with 8,004 of them actually vaccinated to date.
In March, without previous discussion with his coalition partners then Prime Minister Igor Matovič announced the purchase of 2,000,000 doses of this Russian vaccine. However, the vaccine had not been approved by the European Medicines Agency and its producer had not even requested the initiation of the approval process.
Subsequently, the purchase of the Vaccines led to a Government crisis and later to the departure of Matovič from the post of PM. He is now Finance Minister after swapping posts with Eduard Heger.
