Chinese Covid-19 vaccine’s production ‘safe’, says Hungarian official

Production of the Chinese Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine is going on under safe conditions, a senior official of Hungary’s National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition (OGYEI) said on Monday morning.

The vaccine is being produced in a factory using highly modern technology in Beijing, Ferenc Lukács, the head of the authority’s inspection department, told public news broadcaster M1 from the site.

It requires additional inspection to verify the degree of effectiveness of the drug, he said.

Gergely Gulyás, who heads the Prime Minister’s Office, told a press briefing on Thursday that Hungary had “practically reached an agreement” on a delivery of the Sinopharm vaccine. He added that the first shipment could be as large as one million doses, pending approval by Hungarian authorities.

As we wrote yesterday, “Brussels is not delivering vaccine fast enough nor is it delivering enough vaccine to Hungary,” the Government Information Centre said in a statement, details HERE.

UPDATE

Meanwhile, the opposition Democratic Coalition has called on OGYEI “not to yield to the government’s devious political pressure” to license the Chinese vaccine.