(ANSA-AFP) - VIENNA, MAR 30 - Austria said on Tuesday it was
negotiating with Russia over the possible purchase of one
million doses of the Sputnik V vaccine -- which has yet to be
approved by EU regulators. Though EU member Hungary is already
administering Sputnik V and a total of 57 countries have
authorised its use, according to the Russian Direct Investment
Fund (RDIF), it is still under review by the European Medicines
Agency (EMA). The office of Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz
told AFP on Tuesday that the talks had started on February 26
over the delivery of 300,000 doses in April, 500,000 in May and
200,000 in early June 2021, but added that no agreement had been
made. Earlier this month, Kurz and five other central and
eastern EU leaders urged Brussels to find a "correction
mechanism" to fix what they called the unfair distribution of
coronavirus vaccines within the bloc. "If Austria receives an
additional one million vaccine doses, we will be able to return
to normality faster and could save many lives as well as jobs,"
Kurz said. (ANSA-AFP).
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