According to the head of the Hungarian prime minister’s office, Gergely Gyas, the Russian vaccine is safe and produced according to modern standards
Hungary hopes to receive the first batch of Russian vaccine against the new Sputnik V coronavirus by the end of February. The news was reported by Reuters on Thursday, citing the head of Hungarian Prime Minister Gergely Gyasz’s office.
According to him, the Russian vaccine is safe and produced according to modern standards.
On January 22, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó said at a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that Hungary would receive 2 million doses of the Russian drug Sputnik V for the vaccination of 1 million citizens. Prior to that, the National Institute of Pharmacology and Food Safety of Hungary completed the review of documentation on Sputnik V and approved the provisional approval of the drug. Hungary in November 2020 became the first EU country to receive samples of the Sputnik V vaccine for research.
Sputnik V vaccine has been registered in Russia, Algeria, Belarus, Bolivia, Hungary, Serbia, Argentina, Palestine, Venezuela, Paraguay and Turkmenistan.