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All vaccines that are or will be available in the European Union must meet relevant EU approval and quality standards, Erik Mamer, chief spokesman for the European Commission, said at a press conference at the Brussels panel on Friday.
Mamer responded to a journalist’s question about how Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s announcement on Friday that Hungary is also trading vaccines in China and Russia dovetails with the EU Commission’s proposed strategy to procure and distribute vaccines, which is in line with to strict quality compliance.
In his response, the spokesperson emphasized, without mentioning Hungary, that it is not possible to buy and use a vaccine from a non-EU country in the European Union without complying with the necessary and valid EU procedures and requirements.
Commission spokeswoman Vivian Loonela said that the European Commission is in intensive negotiations with several vaccine manufacturers, whose product developments are showing promising results. So far, the committee has concluded three purchase agreements to ensure access to the vaccines, and negotiations are nearing completion for three more manufacturers.
He recalled that the EU committee had published a recommendation on the transport and storage of vaccines.
It is clear, necessary and crucial that technically coordinated and politically agreed vaccination strategies exist in all Member States, including effective and consistent communication and the fight against fake news. It is of the utmost importance to support the rapid development and approval of safe and effective vaccines against coronavirus, cites MTI.
Any vaccine that is licensed to be marketed in the EU must meet a high level of safety and efficacy requirements for all drugs on the European market, the spokesperson added.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Kossuth Radio on Friday Good morning Hungary! Among other things, the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine is expected to arrive in Hungary in late December and early January, so that chronic patients, the most vulnerable elderly, can be vaccinated around January.
And in large quantities, the vaccine is likely to arrive in April, the prime minister said. He added that he had instructed the operational strain to prepare a vaccination plan, and that Chinese and Russian vaccines were being negotiated, so there could easily be 2-3 types of vaccines in Hungary in the spring.
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