Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová has backed the researchers that examined doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine after Russia criticised them for having “damaged the reputation” of the shot with their assessment. The president met with the head of the country’s drug control body, the State Office for Drug Control (SODC), which was responsible for the inspection of the Russian vaccine, on Monday (12 April). The move comes after the SODC said that the doses delivered were visibly different from those observed in a study of the vaccine published last year science magazine Lancet, and that Sputnik V jabs administered around the world were “related only in name.”