"Speed is more important than price" when it comes to vaccinating against COVID-19, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban has told a leader's summit of the Visegrad Group.

Speaking at the event marking 30 years of the body, Orban said: "I would like to suggest that vaccination and the vaccine should be politics-free." Adding: "We cannot divide vaccines into the Eastern and Western vaccines."

His comments came a day after Hungary received its first shipment of China's Sinopharm vaccine against COVID-19 – 550,000 vials of Sinopharm's vaccine arrived in Budapest on February 16 with a total of 5 million expected by the end of May.

It is the first EU member to give regulatory approval to the jab and is expected to roll it out following inspection by health authorities.

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