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“For us, the authority is the European Medicines Agency, which authorizes or does not authorize certain vaccines. So far, the Sputnik vaccine has not been licensed in any way by the European Medicines Agency, just like the Chinese vaccine, by the way.
Therefore, until they are authorized, it is known that their use would be dangerous to human health, ”Asta Skaisgirytė, senior adviser to President Gitanas Nausėda, told LRT Radio.
According to her, the fact that Hungary bought the Russian vaccines was probably due to political reasons.
“Perhaps it was Hungary’s political decision to buy some Russian vaccines. It could have been so. However, Hungary’s example is not the one that Lithuania would follow,” said the president’s senior adviser.
As reported, Hungary received 40,000 this week. Sputnik V vaccine dose.
On January 21, the country became the first member of the European Union (EU) to grant a conditional authorization for this product.
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