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Registration for vaccination with the unregistered Russian vaccine Sputnik V has been launched.
Those interested in receiving the jab should submit an application form via the Vakcinacia.nczisk.sk website.
After submitting the basic data, the system will ask the applicants whether they are interested in a vaccine registered by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) or an unregistered vaccine Sputnik V.
About 80,000 expected to be jabbed
The vaccine can be administered to people aged 18-60. The first person is expected to receive the Sputnik V jab on June 7. Health Minister Vladimír Lengvarský (OĽaNO) assumes that about 80,000 people will be vaccinated with the Russian vaccine. Currently, Slovakia has doses available for 100,000 people.
Sputnik V will be administered in eight towns across Slovakia, one in each Slovak region.
Lengvarský emphasised that after the digital green passes are launched, the European Union will accept only vaccines registered by the EMA.
“Sputnik will limit possibilities to travel,” he said at the talk show broadcast by TV Markíza.
Where will the Sputnik V vaccine be administered?
Banská Bystrica Region
General Hospital Lučenec
Bratislava Region
Large-scale vaccination centre Sputnik – Health Centre of Foreign Diseases, American Square
Košice Region
Large-scale vaccination centre Michalovce
Nitra Region
Faculty Hospital Nové Zámky
Prešov Region
Large-scale vaccination centre Humenné
Trenčín Region
Bojnice Hospital
Trnava Region
Large-scale vaccination centre Piešťany
Žilina Region
Large-scale vaccination centre Žilina
Source: Health Ministry
