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...It was designed by a friend of my father’s, Sir Michael Hopkins, and it’s a brilliant piece of architecture. I think it’s won around 15 awards over its time....
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...A facility to pack and distribute Sputnik V will open in May, with plans for it eventually to be produced in Serbia....
...Hungary eschewed EU inoculation guidelines and relied on the Chinese-made Sinopharm vaccine and the Russian-made Sputnik V to become one of the world’s most vaccinated countries....
...Hungary was the first EU country to license and distribute the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine, which it agreed to buy for less than €10 a dose....
...Rivals AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Russia’s Sputnik V and new entrants such as Novavax make up the remainder of the market, which is forecast to double in value to $124bn next year....
...If both new vaccines are approved by Hungary’s National Health Centre, the total number of vaccines approved in Hungary will be seven, including China’s Sinopharm vaccine and Russia’s Sputnik V....
...Hungary has been testing Sputnik V since early December....
...Last week Hungary became the first EU country to start administering China’s Sinopharm vaccine, in addition to Russia’s Sputnik V and jabs developed by BioNTech/Pfizer, Moderna and Oxford/AstraZeneca....
...In Slovakia, Prime Minister Igor Matovic’s decision to buy the Russian Sputnik V vaccine without the agreement of his coalition partners has left his government in turmoil....
...Hungary has also licensed the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine, alongside the EU-approved BioNTech/Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Moderna jabs. “We are in a race against time. Get vaccinated!” he wrote....
...The Czech Republic, which is facing a surge in infections, could start using the Sputnik V vaccine, Prime Minister Andrej Babis said on Sunday....
...Plus, the FT’s southeast Europe correspondent, Valerie Hopkins, explains the love-hate relationships that Serbians have with Chinese investment in their country....
...Hungary was the first EU country to approve the Sinopharm vaccine, along with Sputnik V, the jab developed by a Russian investment fund....
...Additional reporting by Davide Ghiglione in Rome and Valerie Hopkins in Budapest...
...It has the world’s fourth-highest seven-day moving average of daily cases, according to Johns Hopkins University data....
...The comments highlight tensions over Budapest’s decision to run clinical trials next month of the Russian Sputnik V drug, which has not yet been assessed by the European Medicines Agency....
...The vaccine was named Sputnik V in a nod to the Soviet satellite that sparked the cold war-era space race....
...“The fiscal spending can really help them get a V-shaped recovery.” In the longer term, there could be other benefits of central Europe’s ties with Germany....
...Naor Bar-Zeev, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who reviewed the study for The Lancet, wrote that the trial results were “encouraging but small”....
...We welcome the timely coverage of your correspondent Valerie Hopkins (Report, September 12) on the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest (SZFE)....
...Global Covid-19 deaths globally rose above 2.5m on Thursday, according to Johns Hopkins University....
...The total number of confirmed cases in India as of Saturday night was 648,315, according to Johns Hopkins University....
...Gap” announcements (Lunch with Richard Thaler, FT Weekend, August 3), they do employ one tried and tested technique from the world of bird song: on train announcements have a different voice for station v...
...More recently, however, the maker returned to recognition with the 2005 release of the movie The World’s Fastest Indian starring Anthony Hopkins, the daredevil tale of New Zealander Burt Munro who spent...
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