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February 16, 2021, 7:39 pm 0 share Facebook BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) – A shipment of COVID-19 vaccines produced in China arrived in Hungary on Tuesday, the first of 27 nations in the European Union to receive a Chinese vaccine. Hungarian officials, including Prime Minister Viktor Orban, have criticized the EU’s common procurement program for vaccines, claiming it is slow and costing lives. « If the vaccines do not come from Brussels, we must obtain them from elsewhere … Hungarians cannot be allowed to die simply because Brussels takes too long to acquire vaccines, » Orban said last month. A cargo...