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In its Monday article, Hospodárske noviny (HN) reported, according to the ma7.sk article, that
Slovakia waives 3 million doses of Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine
what you would have been entitled to under the EU quota system. According to the article, Slovakia would have received 2.4 million vaccines from the large EU “package” (previously the government had committed another 2.4 million, of which about half a million had already arrived), but now only 600,000 are have compromised.
The Slovak-speaking HN also pointed out that the government had done so because in the meantime it had reached an agreement with the Russians, so the government led by Igor Matovic he preferred Sputnik V to Pfizer.
However, the Health Ministry refuted the accusations in the economic document. According to the ministry, in addition to the EU budget of 2.4 million in question, another 3.4 million Pfizer vaccines have been contracted, that is,
They will have a total of 5.8 million, which will arrive in Slovakia between April and December this year.
The numbers were highly controversial, so DennikN attempted to unravel the threads with the help of experts and ministry sources:
- Slovakia receives 2.4 million doses of EU package 1 vaccine, of which 2.4 million have been contracted
- Slovakia receives 1.2 million doses of vaccine from the second EU package, none of which have been compromised by the government.
- Slovakia receives 2.4 million doses of vaccine from the third EU package, of which 600,000 have been committed by the government.
- It is not yet known how much Slovakia will benefit from the fourth EU package (still open), but it is already clear that the government has contracted 2.8 million from it.
Therefore, the Ministry of Health may be right at the same time, as the government has contracted a total of 5.8 million doses. But HN is also correct in saying that not exactly 3 million doses of the first three packages have been immobilized, even though Slovakia would have had the opportunity to do so.
Cover image source: MTI / Zsolt Czeglédi
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