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They did - Hungary bought and deployed the Sinopharm and Sputnik V vaccines which weren't EMA-approved [1], later also taking CoviShield (the AstraZeneca vaccin
by tolien 5y ago
They did - Hungary bought and deployed the Sinopharm and Sputnik V vaccines which weren't EMA-approved [1], later also taking CoviShield (the AstraZeneca vaccine but manufactured in India) and CanSino.
Why no other countries did it? Who knows. Maybe they thought they were already paying into the EU-wide scheme so why bother?
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccination_in_Hungary#Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccination_in_Hungar...
- thehappypm 5y agoOkay, one member state did it.
- tolien 5y agoThat's more than no EU states? shrug https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-52380823 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-52380823 > Hungary has been using Russia's Sputnik vaccine for months and and Slovakia has also bought doses of it. > Germany said in April it would begin talks to secure supplies of the Russian vaccine and Austria said it would buy one million doses, but only once the EU's medicines agency approves the jab for use in the EU. > The Czech Republic and Poland have entered talks with both Russia and China. So that's Hungary, Slovakia, Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland - that would be 5 states, ~20%.