While publicly dismissing Sputnik vaccine, EU may be changing its mind

• Published date: 15 March 2021
• Author: Dan Verbin
• Date: 15 March 2021

With efforts to vaccinate Europe's 450 million residents encountering difficulties, an EU source told Reuters that turning to Moscow for vaccine help is being considered.

The official, who is involved with EU vaccine negotiations, in an interview with Reuters said that the 27-member bloc was in the process of investigating whether to begin talks with the Russian vaccine's developers, and that it would seek interested EU states.

Hungary and Slovakia have already individually purchased the Sputnik vaccine, with the Czech Republic interested in doing the same. The EU source mentioned Italian vaccine producer ReiThera as a candidate for manufacturing Sputnik for the European market.

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