Hungarian President Janos Ader receives an injection of China's Sinopharm vaccine against COVID-19 in Budapest 

                            on Feb 27, 2021. 

                                   BUDAPUST - Hungarian President Janos Ader received an injection of China's Sinopharm vaccine against COVID-19 

                             on Friday as the country was bracing for the third wave of the pandemic.

                                   Ader told local news agency MTI that he chose China product that was immediately available, instead of Pfizer or 

                              Maderna's vaccines, for which he would have to wait several months.

                              Meanwhile, in a short message aired by Hungarian public television MI, Ader called on all Hungarians to register 

                              for vaccination as soon as possible.

                             "Anyone who gets the chance to receive the first and then the second vaccine with any product approved by Hungarian  

                              authorities and Hungarian experts should do so," Ader said.

                               Let's trust our doctors. let's trust our healthcare system," Ader said, adding that he hoped that Hungarians would soon 

                               leave the pandemic behind.

                              With access to vaccines from five producers, namely China's Sinopharm, Pfizer, Moderna, Astra Zeneca and Russia's 

                              Sputnik V,  Hungary, the first European Union (EU) member state to buy and authorize the use of Chinese vaccines, 

                               started to administer the Sinopharm vaccine on Wednesday.

                               Calling the first day of the injection of Chinese vaccines " a very important day," Prime Minister Viktor Orban stressed 

                               that vaccines purchased from the EU were arriving slower than expected, and Hungary find itself in " big trouble" without 

                               Chinese and Russian vaccines.

                                After the arrival of the first batch of Chinese vaccines, Minister and Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijarto said Friday that 

                                another batch would arrive in Hungary in March.

                                With the help of Russian and Chinese vaccines, Hungary would become the EU member with highest number of citizens 

                                vaccinated, Orban said.