president of the czech republic has called on his government to urgently approve the russian made veit vaccine to ease the ongoing health crisis and it has spiraled into a major dispute within the leadership in prague with president. calling for the health minister to be fired for dragging his feet on the issue here's our europe correspondent peter. well the president of the czech republic deeply unhappy with senior figures in the government of that nation he's in fact called for both the health ministry and the minister for health to step up to the plate in approve the sputnik vaccine ahead of the european medicines agency giving the green light a similar move was done in countries like hungary that independently approved the vaccine for use without. approval it was still waiting for the difference in the czech republic is those that the president is now calling for senior figures in the cabinet to be sacked i would like to say that the 2 biggest obstacles to delivering sputnik be to the czech republic and the minister of health and also the director of the state institute for drug co

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