OGYÉI approves China's Sinopharm vaccine
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Hungary's National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition (OGYÉI) has approved a COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinopharm, the country's chief medical officer said at a daily press briefing on Friday, according to a report by state news wire MTI.
Cecília Müller said Hungarians can now "count on" COVID-19 vaccines developed by BioNTech/Pfizer, Moderna, and AstraZeneca, as well as Russia's Sputnik V vaccine and now the Sinopharm vaccine.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a post on Facebook later on Friday that Hungary would buy 5 million doses of the Sinopharm vaccine, enough to inoculate 2.5 million people.
Szijjártó said he had spoken by phone with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi after attending a ceremony to inaugurate an LNG terminal in Croatia. A contract on acquiring the Sinopharm vaccine was signed in the morning, he added.
The deliveries of the vaccine will take place in four phases over four months, he said.
He noted that more than 300,000 people in neighboring Serbia had been inoculated with the Sinopharm vaccine.
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