304,000 Doses of Covid Vaccine Donated by Hungary to Nicaragua
- 25 Jan 2023 8:57 AM
Hungary is donating 304,000 doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine to Nicaragua to help the country in boosting its inoculation rate, the foreign minister said.
Hungary is donating 304,000 doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine to Nicaragua to help the country in boosting its inoculation rate, the foreign minister said.
A new, single-jab coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer-BioNTech, of which Hungary has so far received 109,000 doses, will be first used as a booster for vaccinated health-care workers, according to koronavirus.gov.hu.
Hungary on Wednesday received the first shipment of Pfizer/BioNTech’s new coronavirus vaccine which targets the original virus and its BA.1 Omicron variant, the head of the epidemiology department of the National Public Health Centre (NNK) said.
The coronavirus pandemic has been defeated and is waning in Hungary, but the infection remains dangerous, Béla Merkely, the rector of the medical Semmelweis University, said on Sunday.