The first shipment of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which has been been approved by the European Medicines Agency, arrived in Hungary on Saturday, public news channel M1 said.
The shipment containing enough vaccine to inoculate 20,000 people was received by Hungaropharma on Saturday morning, M1 said. The vaccine is planned to be used to inoculate persons with underlying contitions aged under 60 who have registered for vaccination.
The AstraZeneca vaccine was approved by Hungary’s National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition before the European Medicines Agency.
The AstraZeneca vaccine was approved by Hungary’s National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition before the European Medicines Agency.
The advantage of the AstraZeneca vaccine is that it can be stored and transported at temperatures between 2 and 8 degrees Celsius,
which makes it easier to handle than the vaccines previously available.
Two jabs are needed to achieve immunity, the second to be administered 4-12 weeks after the first. Hungary has signed up for 6,540,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which is enough to inoculate 3,270,000 people, M1 said.
Two jabs are needed to achieve immunity, the second to be administered 4-12 weeks after the first. Hungary has signed up for 6,540,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which is enough to inoculate 3,270,000 people, M1 said.
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As we reported before, the first shipment of the Russian coronavirus vaccine arrived in Hungary on Tuesday. Cecília Müller, the Hungarian chief medical officer, said then that the 40,000 doses were enough to inoculate 20,000 people. The Hungarian government became the first in the EU who buy Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, also Hungary is became the first EU member to approve China’s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine.
Hungary has five Covid-19 vaccines approved by Hungary’s drug authority: Pfizer, Moderna AstraZeneca, Sputnik-V and Sinopharm. Cecília Müller noted that Hungarian health authorities had so far granted licences to five vaccines, while the government had made reservations for a total 19.7 million doses. Hungary is expecting enough vaccines from Russia to inoculate 1 million people, and vaccines from China for another 2.5 million, Müller said.
