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Sputnik controversy, Slovak health minister resigns
Row after order: 'We should have waited for EMA.'
12 March, 15:46
(ANSA) - MOSCOW, 12 MAR - Slovakia's Health minister, Marek
Krajčí, announced his resignation after being put under pressure
by the country's four-party government coalition for having
ordered the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus.
After Hungary, Slovakia was the second EU country to purchase Sputnik for national use, bypassing the EMA authorization.
Premier Matovic had raised hackles among the two coalition parties when he ordered the vaccine supplies in late February without the coalition's approval. Critics said he should have waited for the EMA. The Moscow Times reported. (ANSA).
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After Hungary, Slovakia was the second EU country to purchase Sputnik for national use, bypassing the EMA authorization.
Premier Matovic had raised hackles among the two coalition parties when he ordered the vaccine supplies in late February without the coalition's approval. Critics said he should have waited for the EMA. The Moscow Times reported. (ANSA).
