Coronavirus – Hungary mulls participating in Russian vaccine’s clinical trials
Hungary is weighing whether to participate in clinical trials of the coronavirus vaccine being developed by Russia, Human Resources Minister Miklós Kásler said on Monday.
As we wrote on Novermber, the sample of Russia’s coronavirus vaccine has arrived in Budapest, read details HERE.
Between 3,000 and 5,000 Hungarians could participate in the trial, Kásler told an online press conference.
A delegation of Hungarian medical experts who visited Russia last week have reported that the development of the Russian vaccine is taking place “in line with conditions prescribed by the WHO”, he added.
Some 22,000 volunteers have already been inoculated with Sputnik V,
the minister said, and are being continuously monitored by doctors.
Hungary in talks with producers of every potential vaccine
Hungary is in talks with every producer developing a potential coronavirus vaccine and has prospects to have various types available in the first quarter of 2021, Cecília Müller, the chief medical officer, said on Monday.
A vaccine will be a “great potential new instrument for controlling the epidemic”,
she told a regular online press conference.
She noted the website vakcinainfo.gov.hu the government will soon launch for voluntary registration for people wishing to be inoculated.
Hungarian hospitals continue to cope with the current load, with a total of 7,932 Covid-19 patients needing therapy, she said, giving reassurance that all conditions were in place to provide appropriate care to all of them.
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Source: MTI
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The continuing fragility of Hungary’s relationship in the European Union, of which Hungary does have correct and rightfulness of relevance and validness in a number of areas that are in “vibrant discussion” – the decision of choose in the vaccine to be used should be that which is “signed off” by the European Union.
Angela Dorothea Merkel – Chancellor of Germany, the decision Merkel makes will be my comfort zone confidence stimulator that confirms a vaccine is available, that ticks ALL the right boxes, eliminating the questions of great uncertainty, of vaccines claimed being produced by Russia and China.
The continuing fragility of Hungary’s relationship in the European Union, of which Hungary does have correct and rightfulness of relevance and validness in a number of areas that are in “vibrant discussion” – the decision of choose in the vaccine to be used should be that which is “signed off” by the European Union.
Angela Dorothea Merkel – Chancellor of Germany, the decision Merkel makes will be my comfort zone confidence stimulator that confirms a vaccine is available, that ticks ALL the right boxes, eliminating the questions of great uncertainty, of vaccines claimed being produced by Russia and China.
The UK vaccination program using the Pfizer vaccine begins today (Tuesday), the EU has ordered 300 million doses. There is no way that I will have anything to do with with the Russian experimental vaccine.