Hungary to receive Russian vaccine in December!
Hungary will start receiving “small supplies” of a Russian coronavirus vaccine for clinical testing in December, under an agreement between the Hungarian foreign minister and Russia’s health minister on Thursday.
Hungary’s Péter Szijjártó said he had phoned Mikhail Murashko, whose country “is taking huge steps towards developing and producing a vaccine”.
Once the clinical trials are completed, Hungary and Russia will cooperate in obtaining a licence for the Russian vaccine, Szijjártó said, adding that the chief medical officers of the two countries would discuss the matter on Friday.
Szijjártó, who is in home quarantine after testing positive for coronavirus, said he had mild Covid-19 symptoms.
Earlier in the day, a state secretary of the foreign ministry said that Hungary could also receive coronavirus vaccine samples from a Chinese manufacturer for testing.
Tamás Menczer said in a video published on Facebook that Hungary was “close” to getting the vaccine, adding that “this would be a great step because Hungarian experts could be testing a possible coronavirus vaccine,” while it could also put Hungary in the forefront of European coronavirus research.
Negotiations are under way with three Chinese, a Russian, and an Israeli producer, Menczer said.
“One thing is for certain: if the vaccine is developed in the East first, neither the lobbyists in Brussels nor those of international pharmaceuticals will prevent us from importing the vaccine,” Menczer insisted.
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Source: MTI
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2 Comments
Let Sziijártó and Menczer be the first guinea pigs for the clinical trials. Then let’s see how confident they arei in the Russian vaccine (yet to peer group assessed).
So Hungarians will have to be injected the leftovers of a lousy, if at all reliable, made in Putinstan vaccine?
And yet the same Hungarians will vote for Orbán when time comes?
Unbelievable.