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Almost half of the Czech population would prefer to be vaccinated with the Russian Sputnik V vaccine. This is evidenced by the results of a public opinion survey conducted by the STEM / MARK agency, RIA Novosti reports.
The jab enjoys huge support among Czechs. The media call its level "surprisingly high." If the use of the vaccine in the Czech Republic is approved, almost 47% of the country's population is ready to be vaccinated with the Russian vaccine, instead of waiting for an unknown amount of time, their turn will not come to be vaccinated with any Western vaccine.
The most active people who want to use Sputnik V are older people, men, residents of Moravia and small towns.
Over the past month, the number of people wishing to get vaccinated in the Czech Republic has grown by 7%, accounting for a total of f57% of the population, which is noticeably more than in countries in the region such as Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. Currently, Pfizer / BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccines are used in the republic for vaccinations against coronavirus.
Eearlier, Czech President Milos Zeman addressed Russia with a request to start delivering Russian vaccines. Czech Health Minister Jan Blatný was fired last Wednesday after refusing to support efforts to purchase Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine.
Milos Zeman clarified that the drug would first need to be certified. According to him, it would be enough if the vaccine was registered by the Czech State Institute for Drug Control. Zeman had already spoken out in favour of the country following the “Hungarian path” of vaccination: Budapest began purchasing Sputnik V without waiting for the certification of the jab in the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Belgrade began to act on the same principle.
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