Slovaks have only three more days to enrol themselves for inoculation with Sputnik V, as the option to choose the Russian-made jab in the national waiting room will be removed on June 30, wrote the TASR press agency on Monday. According to data from the Health Analysis Institute, there are currently 5,824 people waiting for their first jab and 8,439 waiting for the second one. The Government decided last week that it will sell and/or donate 160,000 Sputnik V doses to third countries, mainly to the Western Balkans.
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. In the end, only 200,000 doses were bought.
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.
