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2021/03/16 00:16 FILE - In this Monday March 1, 2021 file photo, Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovic, right, and Health Minister Marek Krajci at Kosice Airport, Slovaki... FILE - In this Monday March 1, 2021 file photo, Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovic, right, and Health Minister Marek Krajci at Kosice Airport, Slovakia, as Russias Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine arrives. Two parties in Slovakia’s ruling coalition called on the conservative prime minister to r...

Slovak Health Minister Forced to Resign over Sputnik V Purchase 13 Mar 2021 Slovakian Health Minister Marek Krajci resigned Thursday amid pressure from the country’s four-party coalition government, which threatened to disband last month in protest of his order of two million doses of Russia’s Sputnik V, a coronavirus vaccine candidate. Prime Minister Igor Matovic bypassed Slovakia’s coalition government in late February to order shipments of Russia’s Sputnik V after Krajci advocated ...

news EU struggles with vaccine delays and new Covid surge © Reuters German officials said they hoped 80% of the population would be inoculated by autumn Europeans, like many others across the world, hoped for a better and happier year in 2021 - after seemingly endless months of Covid illness, deaths and pandemic-linked economic misery. But so far, so annus horribilis for the EU. On a number of Covid fronts. The blocs by now infamous vaccination procurement scheme - trumpeting the securing of...

Russia's Sputnik V vaccine has sown division among former Eastern Bloc countries, analysts say, with some seeing it as a godsend and others as a Kremlin propaga

Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine has sown division among former Eastern Bloc countries, analysts say, with some seeing it as a godsend and ...

Slovakias health minister quits over deal to buy COVID-19 vaccines from Russia

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Slovakia's Health Minister Marek Krajci has resigned as part of a deal to defuse a political crisis over the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines from Russia.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary has emerged as a European Union leader in COVID-19 vaccinations thanks to a strategy that sought shots from Russia and China as well as from inside the bloc, spurring increasing trust in jabs from eastern nations. But that strategy is up against a skyrocketing rise in new COVID-19 cases and deaths blamed on a more infectious virus variant first found in Britain that is putting an unprecedented strain on Hungarys health care system. A new round of lockdown mea...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic — Slovakia’s Health Minister announced his resignation on Thursday in a deal to defuse a political crisis over the acquisition of a Russian vaccine, which had threatened to topple the coalition government. Marek Krajci’s resignation was requested by two parties in the four-party coalition in a country that’s been among the hardest-hit […]