China’s Sinopharm vaccine arrives in Hungary

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    Hungary has received its first batch of 550,000 doses of China’s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, making it the first EU country to use Chinese-made jabs. Sinopharm’s COVID-19 vaccine was approved in Hungary on January 29, making it the first country from the European Union to greenlight the Chinese vaccine.

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