After more than 11 months of near total self-isolation, 69-year-old Hungarian Marianne Schmidt was looking forward to seeing her family after becoming one of the first Europeans to receive a China-made Covid-19 vaccine.
“I just want to live my life,” said Schmidt after receiving her jab at a doctor’s surgery in Budapest on Thursday.
The vaccine, developed by China’s Sinopharm, has not been approved for use in the EU but Hungary has pressed ahead regardless, breaking with an EU consensus that any Covid-19 shot used inside the bloc would be authorised by the European Medicines Agency and procured via its centralised scheme.
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