100,000 2nd Sputnik doses arriving in Hungary

Fully 100,000 second Sputnik vaccine doses are arriving in Hungary on Tuesday evening, Péter Szijjártó, the foreign minister, has said on Facebook.

Also, a government freight plane will return from China in the second half of the week “packed” with the next Sinopharm shipment. He said

the plane’s crew would also be busy next week.

Meanwhile, Szijjártó said on Tuesday he will travel to Switzerland, “an important political and economic ally”. Switzerland, like Hungary, has withheld its vote for the UN global migration compact, he said, adding that Swiss businesses employed thousands of Hungarians through multitudes of investments in the country.

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