New shipment of coronavirus vaccines arrives in Hungary

A second shipment of the German-American coronavirus vaccine containing 70,000 ampoules arrived in Liszt Ferenc International Airport on Wednesday morning, according to public television channel M1.

The first shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived in Hungary on Saturday. Around 2,500 health-care staff have been vaccinated with it so far.

The new shipment arrived in Hungary on board a Boeing 757 from Germany.

The second consignment will be sufficient to inoculate 35,000 Hungarian health-care staff.

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