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The Czech Republic is currently the world leader in the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days, and only in neighboring Slovakia in terms of mortality, AFP estimates show.
Vaccination rates in the Czech Republic are slower than expected, with 10.7 million vaccinations since December. only 650 thousand people were vaccinated in a country with a population of. people. As a result, Czech politicians blame the slow process of buying vaccines in the European Union.
“After consulting with the prime minister, I sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin asking for the Spuntik vaccine to be introduced,” pro-Russian and pro-Czech President Milos Zeman told TV Prima. “Information from the Russian embassy suggests that the vaccine will arrive in the next few days.”
He also said that he would not object if his country also used the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine because “vaccines have no ideology.”
Currently, neither the Russian nor the Chinese vaccine are approved by the European Medicines Agency, unlike the Pfizer and BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccines currently in use in the Czech Republic. However, both Zeman and Czech Prime Minister Andrei Babish say they do not intend to wait for EVA approval.
“All we need is a stamp from the Czech State Medicines Control Office,” Babish said during a visit to Hungary and Serbia earlier this month. “65 countries around the world, including six EU members, want a Russian vaccine, so why say ‘God, how scary?'”
“Believe me when I say that in a few months, EU member states will ask for the Sputnik vaccine,” said the populist billionaire prime minister, who, like Zeman, has already been vaccinated with two doses of a vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.
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