It was Matovic who pushed for the import of the Russian vaccine to Slovakia. In his status, the Minister attacked the critics of Sputnik. “If Sputnik hadn’t demonized, we could have vaccinated half a million people like the Hungarians. For some, however, the blunt fight against Russia and Matovic was more valuable than the health and lives of people, “said the former prime minister on the social network.
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More than 15,000 people in Slovakia showed interest in Sputnik. Slovakia had 200,000 doses of Russian vaccine at its disposal. The Russian side bought back the unused vaccines. Matovič himself claimed in May that he would be vaccinated with one of the vaccines approved by the European Medicines Agency, because vaccination with Sputnik would be a complication for him during frequent trips abroad.
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What made him change his mind, he did not reveal now. In Slovakia, 35.3 percent of the population is now fully vaccinated, on Sunday the authorities reported seven new infections, a day earlier there were 46.
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