Hungarian health authorities have approved Russia’s coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V, the Government said, with 40,000 doses of the jab already to be given.

Official testing has been completed “and the vaccine may be administered”, Miklos Kasler, the human resources minister who is in charge of health, said on social media.

The Government had announced Tuesday that it had taken delivery of 40,000 doses of Sputnik V, a first within the European Union.

It is the first batch of a total order of two million doses to be supplied over three months.