“It would be enough to get the consent of the Czech pharmaceutical regulator.

Why wait for the European Medicines Agency?

The Russian vaccine manufacturer will not apply to EMA with a request to register Sputnik V.

Trust me that in a couple of months other EU member states will want Sputnik V.

I have already spoken about this at a meeting of the European Council, ”the TASS politician quotes.

Babis emphasized that he has full confidence in the Russian vaccine.

He recalled that during the existence of the socialist bloc, Czechs were vaccinated with Soviet drugs, which were of high quality and effective.

As it became known earlier, the President of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman appealed to the Russian leader Vladimir Putin with a request to provide the Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus.