Chief medical officer: Hungary increases Pfizer purchases to over 10 m

Hungary has expanded the number of Pfizer BioNtech vaccines it is contracted to purchase to 10,870,000 doses from 6.5 million, the chief medical officer said on Monday. Cecilia Muller also told a regular online press conference that a large shipment of Russia's Sputnik V containing 100,000 doses of the vaccine's first component and 180,000 doses of the second one is on its way to Budapest. She said 685,247 people have been vaccinated so far, with 251,691 having received a second shot.