Coronavirus – Hungary to buy 5 million doses of Sinopharm vaccine
Hungary has contracted five million doses of the coronavirus vaccine produced by Chinese company Sinopharm, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Friday.
Szijjártó said on Facebook he had signed an agreement to purchase the vaccine, enough to inoculate 2.5 million people, on Friday after talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
Sinopharm will deliver the vaccine in four phases, over a period of four months, he said.
The National Medicines and Food Health Institute (OGYEI) green-lighted the use of the vaccine in Hungary earlier on Friday.
Szijjártó said the large quantities ordered would speed up the inoculation process and “might save thousands of lives”. Lifting the restrictions may also come sooner with mass inoculation, he said.
The vaccine has already been administered to over 300,000 people in Serbia, he added.
DK: Chinese vaccine approved under political pressure by government
The opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) party said on Friday that the Chinese vaccine Sinopharm had been approved by the Hungarian authorities under political duress.
DK health spokesman Zoltán Komáromi told an online press conference that the jab had been licenced by the National Medicines and Food Health Institute (OGYEI) in the face of public outrage over pressure exerted by the government on the agency.
Komáromi objected to “gambling with the health and lives of Hungarians”.
He insisted that it should have been down to the European Medicines Agency to decide whether the vaccine was safe and effective.
Read alsoHow much does Hungary pay for the Chinese COVID-19 jabs?
Source: MTI
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Yet again, the DK (Dobrev Klara) party has been proven to be a party of STUPID IDIOTS.
Following news on Friday that a NON-PRACTISING Hungarian medical practitioner (now a DK-affiliated mayor) was ILLEGALLY vaccinated a few weeks ago with the Pfizer vaccine, comes a statement from another DK politician that only the European Medicines Agency (EMA) should approve COVID-19 vaccines for use in Hungary.
WHAT UTTER STUPIDITY !
First, the Hungarian National Medicines and Food Health Institute (OGYEI) is quite capable – and legally entitled under E.U. rules – of making such an important decision.
Second, the EMA – like most other EU-affiliated organisations – has shown a remarkable degree of tardiness (if not incompetence) throughout the authorisation process of any COV-19 vaccines for use within EU nations.
Perhaps the DK should just stay with its main political aim, which is to ensure the election of Dobrev Klara as Hungary’s next Prime Minister under the watchful gaze of her present husband (who was undoubtedly Hungary’s WORST Prime Minister in living memory).