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The coronavirus vaccine is not an ideological problem for Hungary and has greatly helped to speed up vaccination in Hungary for Chinese and Russian vaccines, the foreign and foreign minister told Russian Today in an interview with Russian television. Sunday night.
On Sunday morning, more than 1.5 million Hungarians received the vaccine, which would not have been possible, according to Péter Szijjártó, if they had not decided to purchase vaccines also from the East. About 700,000 Hungarians received one of the oriental vaccines as their first vaccine, so it is easy to calculate how much worse we would be if we had not bought Chinese and Russian vaccines, the minister said in an MTI video.
There are two ways to approve vaccines in Europe: one is approval by the European Medicines Agency, which is the standard procedure. However, European regulations also state that there is another way in case of emergency, in which case national regulatory authorities can issue a permit. So the fact that the Hungarian regulatory authority has issued an emergency permit in no way contradicts European standards, Péter Szijjártó declared, then said: “and we were a bit tired, the way Hungary approved the Sputnik vaccine is in The West part of Europe and in the global media, it has come to light as if we had faced European regulation, which is not true ”.
In November, when he began negotiations with his Russian and Chinese counterparts, it became clear that the situation this spring would be very similar to last year, when global demand for a product far exceeds global production capacity. Last year, that was the case with masks, protective gear, ventilators, and this year with vaccines. Demand is much greater than supply capacity, so negotiations started early, Péter Szijjártó said.
The chancellor also spoke about the exponential increase in the number of new infections in Europe, and if the vaccination process is not accelerated, people’s lives and health, as well as the state of the economy, will be endangered. In Hungary, about 9-10 thousand people are infected every day, the number of deaths exceeds two hundred per day. The economy is losing more than 30 million euros a day due to restrictions, the minister said.
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