Slovakia is the second EU country to approve the …

Slovakia Thursday became the second European Union (EU) country to allow the use of the Russian vaccine against coronavirus Sputnik V, which has yet to be approved by the bloc’s regulator.

Slovak government has asked Health Minister Vladimir Lengvarsky to make the vaccine available before June 7.

The country has 200,000 doses of this drug in stock, but had not yet allowed its use. The purchase of 2 million doses of Sputnik V, secretly negotiated by current former Prime Minister Igor Matovic, sparked a political crisis in March which led to the collapse of the Slovak government. The other country in the bloc that uses the Russian vaccine is Hungary.

“The disinformation war against Sputnik V in Slovakia delayed the launch by 3 months. We are happy that all issues have been resolved and the #SputnikV vaccine can start saving lives,” they posted on the account. Twitter of Sputnik V.

Slovakia, which records on 390,000 coronavirus infections and over 12,000 dead, So far, he has applied 2.4 million doses and completed inoculation in nearly 775,000 people, or 14.2% of the population, with drugs from Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca.