Doubts over Russian Covid vaccine doses delay rollout in Slovakia

Sputnik V order that led to PM's resignation cannot be used owing to incomplete or inaccurate information

A 200,000-dose order of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine that triggered a political crisis in Slovakia should not be administered yet because of incomplete or inaccurate information from the manufacturer, the national medicines agency has said.

The Dennik N news site quoted the agency as saying it could not properly assess the shots, which it said were different from the vaccine whose favourable peer-reviewed late-stage trial results were published in The Lancet medical journal in February.