Lengvarsky: Sputnik V Test Results from Hungary in Order

Bratislava, May 7 (TASR) - Health Minister Vladimir Lengvarsky (an OLaNO nominee) has announced that Slovakia on Thursday received the results of tests carried out in Hungary on its supplies of the Sputnik V vaccine, claiming that the results are in order. The Health Ministry is now set to hold talks with experts and the Russians on how and whether the vaccine should be put to use in the country. According to the minister, there are only two options: either the vaccine will be granted a permit for use or it won"t. Lengvarsky claimed that the former will be possible only if the Russians agree to it. Russia, which recently took back 600 of the 200,000 vaccine doses that were delivered to Slovakia in March in order to carry out its own checks, is obliged to inform Slovakia about the results by the end of May. zel/df