Govt ready to purchase vaccines beyond EU procurements

The government considers the European Union's procurement and supply of vaccines coordinated from Brussels to be too slow and inadequate in volume, so it is ready to turn elsewhere to purchase vaccines, the government information centre said on Thursday. The government is ready to provide the financial resources for the acquisition of additional vaccines, and has commissioned Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto to oversee the procedure, the centre said in a statement. In line with a government decree, the government's aim is to procure as much safe vaccine as possible under the current extraordinary circumstances of supply and demand, the statement added.