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Now playing Next Hungary Hungary's PM Viktor Orbán receives dose of Chinese COVID vaccine Public trust in the Chinese and Russian vaccines was far behind injections produced in the West and approved by the EU's medicines agency. 28/02/2021
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Now playing Next world news Some EU member states relinquished COVID vaccines last year: Macron EU member states agreed to redistribute COVID vaccines among themselves and many member states took extra vaccine doses that were not wanted by others. 26/02/2021
Now playing Next world news EU regulator issues guidance to adapt COVID-19 vaccines to variants The EU regulator says authorized vaccines protect against the variants currently prevalent across Europe. But the shots may need to be adapted as new mutations spread. 25/02/2021
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