MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Hungary was subjected to political attacks after it announced negotiations with manufacturers of Russia’s Sputnik V and China’s Sinopharm on the acquisition of the vaccines, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in an interview with RT broadcaster, published on Sunday.
Hungary already included Sputnik V in its vaccine portfolio without the relevant approval of the EU watchdog. Moreover, Szijjarto himself was inoculated with the Russian vaccine.
In addition to the Russian vaccine, the Hungarian vaccine passport also includes the Chinese-made Sinopharm vaccine, whose shot was administered to Prime Minister Viktor Orban last month.
Hungary became the first EU country to break ranks and approve the emergency use of the Sputnik V shot, followed by Slovakia later. The Czech Republic is also in talks to secure a batch.
Russia firmly opposes the politicisation of the vaccine issue, as it believes there should be as many vaccines as possible “to give every country, including poor countries, an opportunity to inoculate population,” the Kremlin said earlier.
Globally, Sputnik V has already been authorized for use in 54 countries. Last month, the prestigious Lancet medical magazine published a study, according to which the vaccine efficacy stands at 91.6 percent.
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