The European Union does not need the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Brenton said on the TF1 TV channel.
He recalled that in Europe, the medical regulator has approved four drugs, which, in his opinion, is enough. According to Brenton, the EU does not need not only Sputnik V, but also other drugs.
Vaccines approved by Europe should be both mass produced on the territory of the association, and massively applied, Brenton emphasized.
Between March and June, between 300 and 350 million doses of coronavirus vaccines will be delivered to Europe
“As for Sputnik V, the Russians have problems with its production, and if they need help, we will return to this in the second half of the year, but now the priority is given to the Europeans,” Gazeta.ru quotes him. For the EU, priority is given to drugs produced on its territory, the European Commissioner concluded.
On the eve of the Prime Minister of Slovakia Igor Matovic announced his readiness to resign in order to resolve differences in the government. They arose because of his position on the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine.
On March 16, it became known that laboratory tests of “Sputnik V” in Slovakia, permission for the use of which in the country without prior registration in the European Union was issued by the national ministry of health, were successful.
Against the background of the scandal with the registration of a Russian drug in Slovakia, the head of the country’s Ministry of Health, Marek Krajci, resigned on March 11.
Also in March, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Siyjarto spoke of European attacks following the decision to approve Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine.