1.2 Million Sinopharm Doses Arrive in Hungary Fully 1.2 million doses of Sinopharm vaccine arrived in Hungary from China at dawn on Saturday, Péter Szijjártó, the foreign minister, said. “This is the biggest shipment of vaccines so far,” he said on Facebook, adding that Hungary has now received 3.3 million doses altogether. Another 1.7 million doses of the Sinopharm jab are under contract to be delivered in the future, too. Despite the World Health Organization’s announcement highlighting certain issues with the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine, rector of Semmelweis University Béla Merkely has supported the vaccine’s efficacy, arguing that, like all of Hungary’s vaccines, it provides an effective immune response against the coronavirus. The debate around the Chinese vaccine is becoming a significant issue for the Hungarian […]Continue reading