An employee answers questions from the public near samples of a Covid-19 vaccine produced by Sinopharm subsidiary CNBG during a trade fair in Beijing . (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Hungary expects to receive 5 million total doses of the Sinopharm vaccine over the next four months.
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- Last Updated: February 16, 2021, 17:19 IST
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A shipment of a COVID-19 vaccine produced in China arrived in Hungary on Tuesday morning, making the country the first in the European Union to receive a Chinese vaccine. A jet carrying 550,000 doses of the vaccine, developed by the Chinese state-owned company Sinopharm, landed in Budapest after flying from Beijing. The shipment is enough to treat 275,000 people with the two-dose vaccine, head of the Epidemiology Department of the National Public Health Centre, Dr Agnes Galgoczy, said at a press conference.
Hungary expects to receive 5 million total doses of the Sinopharm vaccine over the next four months. The country has sought to purchase…