Hungary to start administering Sinopharm vaccine on Wednesday
February 23, 2021, 7:34 am
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BUDAPEST, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Hungary will on Wednesday become the first European Union country to start inoculating people with Chinese company Sinopharm's COVID-19 vaccine.
The government said on its coronavirus information page on Facebook that Sinopharm shots would be administered for the first time as part of its vaccination campaign, which began in December using the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
Doctors and nurses wait to receive China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine at a community vaccination centre in Hong Kong on Tuesday. Front-line workers and people considered high risk are first in line to be vaccinated in the territory. (Peter Parks/The Associated Press)