Hungary starts using Chinese vaccine in EU first

Budapest (AFP) Feb 24, 2021

Hungary on Wednesday became the first EU nation to start using China's coronavirus Sinopharm vaccine, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said. The country of 10 million has ordered around five million doses of the Chinese jab, and has already started inoculating its population with Russia's Sputnik V vaccine - another EU first. Budapest has repeatedly criticised what it says is the slow pace