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More than 218,000 AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines arrived in Hungary on Thursday, the company announced.
Recent research shows that after the second dose, the vaccine is 76 percent effective in preventing Covid-19 disease and 100 percent effective in preventing serious or critical illness, according to the report.
It was explained that the first shipment of AstraZeneca vaccines arrived in Hungary on February 6, following conditional marketing authorization granted by the European Commission on January 29. Since then, on eight more occasions, weekly, In two months, the British-Swedish company shipped 666,700 doses of vaccine.
The 218,400 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine received on Thursday are the largest simultaneous deliveries in the European Union. which allows 109,200 people to be vaccinated twice, corresponding to the total population of a larger Hungarian city (such as Székesfehérvár or Kecskemét).
AstraZeneca is constantly expanding its capacity to deliver 100 million doses of vaccines to European Union countries and Hungary as a proportion of population in the first half of 2021, despite export restrictions affecting the international supply chain of the company.
Consequently, in the following months, according to the batch release schedule, Hundreds of thousands more vaccines are expected to arrive in Hungary they wrote. They also noted that the European Union Medicines Agency has recently adopted a new name for the vaccine, so from now on AstraZeneca can market its vaccine in the European Union under the brand name Vaxzevria. The full name change is expected in about six months, but the new brand does not signify any change to the vaccine or to AstraZeneca’s policy of providing the vaccine at cost to the world during a pandemic, according to the announcement.
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