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Daily News Daily News · 22/03/2021
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BREAKING – Hungary approves second Chinese COVID vaccine

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China's CanSino Biologics Inc (CanSinoBIO) said on Monday its COVID-19 vaccine has been authorised for emergency use in Hungary

Benjing, China. China's CanSino Biologics Inc (CanSinoBIO) said on Monday its COVID-19 vaccine has been authorised for emergency use in Hungary. Photo: MTI/AP

China’s CanSino Biologics Inc (CanSinoBIO) said on Monday its COVID-19 vaccine has been authorised for emergency use in Hungary, the second Chinese vaccine to receive approval in that nation.

The Hungarian National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition granted the approval for its vaccine, with the trade name Convidecia, based on the interim results of its phase III trial, the company said in a statement.

It was the first EU nation to buy and use Chinese or Russian shots and initially came under fire for its separate approval process and negotiations for the vaccines.

More recently, several European countries have also expressed interest in buying those vaccines as shipments from Western suppliers lagged.

Hungary has also approved a COVID-19 vaccine developed by China National Pharmaceutical Group’s (Sinopharm) for use in the country.

CanSinoBIO’s vaccine is a single-dose vaccine that is currently also approved in China, Pakistan and Mexico.

Hungary’s daily coronavirus infections on Friday surpassed 10,000, hitting a record of 10,759, while the daily death toll also hit a record at 213 in the central European country of 10 million.

  • Latest numbers: Hungary reports record number of COVID-19 patients in ICU – March 22, 2021

Government: Chinese, Russian jabs greatly helped speed up Hungary’s vaccination drive

The coronavirus vaccine is not an ideological issue and the acquisition of vaccines from China and Russia has greatly helped speed up Hungary’s vaccination drive, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in an interview with the Russia Today TV channel posted on his Facebook page on Sunday.

Szijjártó said in the interview that by Sunday morning more than 1.5 million Hungarians had been inoculated against the coronavirus, which would not have been possible if vaccines had not been procured from the East.

Some 700,000 Hungarians received an Eastern vaccine as their first jab, and it is easy to calculate how much worse the situation would be, had Hungary not bought vaccines from China and Russia, he said.

“Vaccine is not a question of ideology for us it is a matter of savings lives and if we had not contracted Chinese and Russian vaccine we couldn’t have saved the health and lives of many Hungarians,” he added.

Szijjártó said that Sputnik V had been reviewed by Hungarian experts and approved by the national regulatory body, as allowed under European Union regulations in cases of emergency.

“And that’s what made us a little bit fed up…that the way Hungary has approved Sputnik was considered in the Western part of Europe and in global media as if we had made something against the European regulations which is not true. European regulations say very clearly that in the case of emergency you can make such a move,” he said.

“We’re actually used to that. Whatever we do here in Hungary is immediately attacked and then a couple of months or years after, everybody follows. Of course, nobody gives the credit for us to be first, but this is not how politics works,” he added.

Szijjártó said every day around 9,000-10,000 Hungarians are registered as being infected with Covid-19, while the number of deaths exceeds 200 and the economy suffers damage of more than 30 million euros because of restrictions.

“So it’s very easy to calculate: if you are able to increase the number of vaccines in your country and if you are able to accelerate the vaccination procedure, you can win big. You can save the lives of the people, you can save the health of the people and you can come closer to…re-opening the country and re-starting the economy,” he added.

“So I think this is the very clear reason why now western European countries understand that if they are not able to add Sputnik or any other type of vaccine to their portfolio, they will be in a very complicated and challenging situation,” he said.

“I can tell you one thing for sure, the centralised procurement procedure managed by Brussels has failed, has failed because, regardless of the promises and the expectations, there are much less vaccines arriving and much slower compared to what had been said before,” he added.

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Source: Reuters/MTI

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2 Comments

  1. Mario says:
    22/03/2021 at 13:05

    Good luck, Hungary….

  2. GRUMPY says:
    23/03/2021 at 07:23

    Thank you Mario,
    It is the first time you’ve said something humane.
    Keep up the good work.

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