Hungary’s national vaccine plant will this year receive the technology from Russia to produce the Sputnik coronavirus vaccine, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday in Moscow, after talks with Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko.
Hungary to receive technology to make Sputnik vaccines
Szijjártó said Hungary had “profited greatly” from high-level health-care cooperation with Russia, the foreign ministry said in a statement. Earlier in the pandemic, Hungary procured enough Sputnik V vaccine to “protect the life and health of one million people”, contributing to the “fastest vaccination campaign in Europe”, Szijjártó said.
“We now agreed to take vaccine cooperation to a new level,”
he said.
Murashko and Szijjártó agreed that the technology transfer necessary to produce Sputnik vaccine will be done this year, to be used in Hungary’s vaccine factory which is currently under construction, the statement said.
Hungary also has an economic interest in manufacturing a vaccine high in demand worldwide,
Szijjártó said.
Murashko said the World Health Organisation’s accreditation process of the vaccine is expected to pick up speed. The WHO will sign an agreement with the Russian government to start the process next Wednesday, he said.
Murashko said the World Health Organisation’s accreditation process of the vaccine is expected to pick up speed. The WHO will sign an agreement with the Russian government to start the process next Wednesday, he said.
Szijjártó said Hungary had “positive experiences” with Sputnik V, and is ready to make the data available for the WHO. Szijjártó and Murashko agreed to convene the Hungarian-Russian mixed committee at the end of November to work out details of vaccine production, Szijjarto said.
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Source: MTI
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1 Comment
Why not Pfizer? There is at least a connection there with Katalin Kariko. I don’t think the world really wants Sputnik V, not even the Russians are that keen, hence their high COVID numbers.