Coronavirus update, April 15, 2021: Deputy PM heads to Moscow to negotiate Sputnik V supply
Hamáček to negotiate Sputnik V supply in Moscow; Czech Republic sees lowest workday number of new Covid cases since late November.
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Hamáček to negotiate Sputnik V supply in Moscow
Czech Deputy Prime Minister and acting Foreign Minister Jan Hamáček is leaving for Moscow on Monday to negotiate about possible supplies of the Sputnik V anti-Covid vaccine to the Czech Republic after its approval by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), he tweeted. He will meet Russian Industry and Trade Minister Denis Maturov. Former Slovak parliament chairman Andrej Danko will be in the delegation led by Hamáček. My task is to hand to the Czech Republic all the contacts that I used for Slovakia in the negotiations about Sputnik, Danko said. In Slovakia, the purchase of the Russian vaccine triggered a government crisis. First 200,000 Sputnik V doses were delivered to Slovakia six weeks ago, but th