The Slovak government halted purchases of COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday pending a review of their safety by the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Prime Minister Robert Fico said.
Fico told a televised briefing that based on a 2023 agreement signed by a previous administration, Slovakia was still due to receive 300,000 more vaccine doses for around 5.7 million euros ($6.48 million). He did not name the suppliers.
‘We have an expert opinion from a registered expert that the vaccines used in Slovakia contained enormously high levels of DNA and substances which the producer did not show in the packaging material,’ Fico told a news conference.
‘Therefore the decision to not take or pay temporarily (for the remaining vaccines) until we have more information is right,’ he said.
‘To ignore the expert findings on the quality of COVID-19 vaccines used in Slovakia would be extremely irresponsible,’ he concluded
The brave Robert Fico (who survived an assassination attempt last year) has repeatedly doubted the benefits of COVID-19 vaccinations, and organised a protest that went against lockdown rules during the pandemic.
You can view Fico’s full press conference statement here:
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