“A symbolic gift from France, 15 thousand vaccines from AstraZeneca, was handed over on Sunday in the town of Bojnice, and tomorrow they will be delivered throughout the republic.
On Monday, we begin to vaccinate people aged 60-70 with this vaccine.
Recent studies have confirmed that this vaccine reduces the risk of hospitalization by 94% by the fourth week after the first vaccination.
This is what Slovakia needs now, ”Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovic wrote on Facebook.
The prime minister expressed gratitude to the French leadership for this gift, as well as for active assistance in receiving, out of turn, 100,000 Pfizer / BioNTech vaccines from the EU.
Earlier it was reported that Slovakia is sending patients with COVID-19 to Germany due to a lack of places in intensive care.