AFP reports.

“Hungary is the first EU country to approve a Chinese vaccine against COVID-19,” the agency said.

#BREAKING Hungary becomes first EU country to approve Chinese Covid vaccine pic.twitter.com/EXwo6HQox0

- AFP News Agency (@AFP) January 29, 2021

Earlier, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced his intention to be vaccinated against the coronavirus with a vaccine from China.

On January 21, the Russian Direct Investment Fund confirmed the registration of the Russian vaccine against coronavirus Sputnik V by the Hungarian National Institute of Pharmacology and Nutrition.