Minister: Hungary plans to buy 2 mln doses of Sputnik V vaccine

MOSCOW, Jan 22 (PRIME) -- Hungary plans to buy 2 million doses of the Sputnik V vaccine from Russia, and delivery should be done in the next three months, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday.

“We have already received a copy of a contract signed by the Russian side. In accordance with the agreement, we will receive access to a batch of the vaccine necessary to vaccinate 1 million of our citizens. This is potentially about 2 million doses taking into account that this is a 2-component vaccine,” he said.

“We agreed on three stages of the vaccine purchase. We will get 300,000 (doses) in the first month, half a million in the second month, and 200,000 doses in the third month necessary to vaccinate the same amount of people.”

On Thursday, Hungary’s National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition registered the Sputnik V vaccine in the country, making Hungary the E.U.’s first country to approve application of the vaccine in its territory officially.

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