Representatives of the Hungarian National Center for Public Health announced the completion of a conditional official study of the Russian vaccine Sputnik V. Thus, Hungary became the first country in the European Union to approve the use of this vaccine. Budapest will receive two million doses over the next three months, as was reported by Strana.ua.
The Ministry of Human Resources of Hungary noted that the Russian-made vaccine has passed all the necessary tests and proved its effectiveness. The drug called "Sputnik V" is completely safe and effective, and it can move on to the stage of mass vaccination.
Official testing has been completed "and the vaccine may be administered", Miklos Kasler, the human resources minister who is in charge of health, said on social media.
The government had announced Tuesday that it had taken delivery of 40,000 doses of Sputnik V, a first within the European Union. It is the first batch of a total order of two million doses to be supplied over three months.
This means that the country now has four types of Covid-19 vaccines: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Sputnik-V.