(ANSA-AFP) - BELGRADE, APR 8 - Slovakia's drug regulator said
Thursday it was not able to determine the safety of a batch of
Russia's Sputnik V vaccine delivered to Bratislava last month,
voicing misgivings about its composition. The EU member state of
5.4 million people is battling one of the highest Covid-19 death
rates in the world. Former prime minister Igor Matovic was
forced to step down last week amid a scandal over his hasty
purchase of two million doses of the Sputnik V vaccine, which so
far has not received a green light from the European Medicines
Agency (EMA) for use in the European Union. "Batches of (Sputnik
V) vaccine used in preclinical tests and clinical studies
published in the Lancet journal do not have the same
characteristics and properties as batches of vaccine imported to
Slovakia," the State Institute for Drug Control (SUKL) said a
statement. (ANSA-AFP).
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