Slovakia offers 160,000 doses of Sputnik COVID-19 vaccine

PRAGUE: Slovakia plans to sell or donate 160,000 doses of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine to other countries, a government website showed on Wednesday, offering up much of the first batch it had available after months of wrangling and a political crisis.

In June, the country began administering the shot to those who wanted it following months of delay. But the government said it would not order more shots beyond the initial batch of 200,000 doses it had received until Sputnik V won EU approval.