Austrian Kurz orders one million Sputnik V vaccines. In the face of the Commission
Austria has announced that it is in talks with Russia to purchase one million doses of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said the purchase will allow "the vaccination of 500,000 people from April onwards," according to the APA news agency.
A statement from his office said 300,000 doses of Sputnik V would be delivered in April, another 500,000 in May and 200,000 in early June.
"If Austria receives one million additional doses of vaccines, we will be able to return to normal more quickly, saving many lives and jobs," Kurz said.
A "non-disclosure agreement for sharing confidential documents has already been signed," Kurz's office told APA news agency. So the Austrian Chancellor is not bluffing, on the contrary he is very serious and has completely bypassed the Commission in order to speed up vaccinations in his country.
The Russian vaccine is currently only in the process of being approved by the EMA, the European drug agency, and the end of the approval procedure in Brussels is not known. However, Hungary has already started vaccinating citizens with the vaccine, while other Member States – Slovakia and the Czech Republic – have also started negotiations to supplement vaccine stocks outside the EU.
Sputnik V has been authorized in 58 countries in total, according to the Russian Sovereign Wealth Fund (RDIF), but European countries, or rather the Commission, accuse Russia of using its vaccine as a tool for economic pressure.
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