Béla Merkely supported the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine, arguing that, like Hungary's other vaccines, it provides effective protection against the coronavirus.
Opposition politicians are demanding the govt to release all information about the vaccine. Several experts call for an antibody study to clarify the issue.
Coronavirus: Over 4.1 Million Register for Vaccination
So far, 4.11 million Hungarians have registered for coronavirus vaccinations, and 64 percent of them have received at least their first jab, the state secretary heading the central team in charge of the vaccination programme said on Tuesday.
István György welcomed the steady rise in the number of registrations. Fully 1.5 million registered were older than 65, and 1.4 million people overall have fully inoculated, he said.
Patients in the highest risk groups have also received their shots, and most GPs are under way vaccinating active age adults, he added. Some 2.13 million people in the 18-59 age group have registered, and over 800,000 have been inoculated, he said, adding that each registered person would get a shot “within weeks”.
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Pharmaceutical company Janssen Pharmaceutica-Cilag NV, part of the Johnson & Johnson group, has started shipping its single-dose vaccine against coronavirus to EU countries, European Commission spokesman Stefan De Keersmaecker said on Monday.
On October 8th, the Brussels committee reached an agreement with American company Johnson & Johnson to purchase 200 million doses of the vaccine, with the option of purchasing an additional 200 million doses. The U.S. pledged to deliver about 55 million doses to EU countries by the end of June and another 120 million from July to September.
The European Commission granted a conditional marketing authorization in mid-March for the vaccine developed by the company against Covid-19. The Janssen vaccine would be the fourth one to be used in the European Union, apart from Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, and Oxford University’s AstraZeneca.
Cecília Müller announced that Hungary will not be changing its protocol for the Sinopharm vaccine despite a Chinese official recognizing its low efficacy.