In EU first, China’s Sinopharm coronavirus vaccines arrive in Hungary

Hungary on Tuesday became the first EU country to receive China’s Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine as an initial batch of 550,000 doses arrived in Budapest, the government announced.The vaccines – enough to protect 275,000 people against Covid-19 – were flown in aboard a Hungarian government plane which had left for Beijing on Monday and returned home at midday on Tuesday.“This is an important day for Hungary,” Tamas Menczer, secretary of state for foreign affairs in Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s…

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