Slovakia is the second European country to allow …

Slovakia became the second country in the European Union (EU) to authorize the use of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, which would be approved in the coming weeks by the bloc’s regulator.

The Slovak government has asked Health Minister Vladimir Lengvarsky to make the vaccine available before June 7, according to the CNN news network. Slovakia has 200,000 doses of this drug in stock, but he had not yet permitted its use.

The purchase of 2 million doses of Sputnik V, secretly negotiated by former Prime Minister Igor Matovic, It sparked a political crisis in March which led to the fall of the Slovak government. The other nation in the bloc that uses the Russian vaccine is Hungary.

Slovakia, which records around 390,000 coronavirus infections and more than 12,000 deaths, So far it has applied 2.4 million doses, or 14.2% of the population, with drugs from Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca.