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The first shipment of the vaccine arrived in Belarus on Tuesday, but it is not known how many doses of the vaccine were delivered to the country. December 21 This vaccine has been officially registered in Belarus.
“The first shipment of the vaccine arrived in Belarus today,” said Russia’s Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which funded Sputnik V.
“The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus and the RDIF announce that Belarus has begun to vaccinate its population with the Russian vaccine against the Sputnik V coronavirus,” the RDIF added in a press release.
According to Belarusian Health Minister Dzmitry Pinevich, health workers and teachers will first be vaccinated against the coronavirus.
“We thank Russia for active mutual work and strategic cooperation to solve this problem,” Pinevičius added.
RDIF director Kirill Dmitryev, for his part, said that Russia plans to start Sputnik V production in Belarus to “simplify logistics” and speed up the vaccination campaign.
9.5 million Belarus, with a population of 188,000 inhabitants since the beginning of the pandemic, has cases of coronavirus, almost 1,400 infected people died.
Hungary received 6 thousand. Russian vaccines against coronavirus doses
Hungary reported receiving 6,000 on Monday. Russian vaccines against the coronavirus are controversial.
“6 thousand. Doses of the Russian vaccine crossed the Hungarian border with Slovakia,” Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjart said in a video posted on Facebook.
According to the minister, the shipment was taken to Budapest, where Hungarian experts will decide how to use the vaccine. Mr. Szijjarto did not provide further details.
On Saturday, Hungary started vaccination against the coronavirus earlier than most European Union countries, receiving the first batch of vaccine developed by pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech in Belgium.
Budapest, which has long been at odds with Brussels over restrictions on democratic freedoms and a deviation from the rule of law, started vaccination the day before. Most EU countries launched a coordinated COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Sunday.
Last month, Szijjarto said that Hungary was the first European country to receive a Russian vaccine against the Sputnik V coronavirus for testing, and that Hungarian doctors and experts went to Russia to evaluate the production of the drug.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA), whose scientists are evaluating the vaccines before they are officially authorized for distribution in the Community, has not yet presented its evaluation of a Russian preparation for COVID-19, the first artificial ground satellite launched by the sovietic Union.
Moscow states that an interim analysis of clinical trial data on this vaccine has shown that its efficacy is 95 percent.
However, Western and Russian experts have raised concerns about the extreme urgency of developing the vaccine, and critics have described it as a means of increasing Russia’s geopolitical influence.
According to Budapest, if the safety and efficacy of the drug is proven, the country could receive large batches of Sputnik V in the coming years, and one of the Hungarian companies could engage in mass production of the drug.
“Hungary is open to all successful vaccines,” Szijjart said on Monday.
“We are doing everything possible to ensure that Hungary receives all effective vaccines as soon as possible, no matter where they are developed, in the West or the East,” he said.
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