Hungary's donation of 200,000 shots of the Chinese-made Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine was delivered to Montenegro on Monday.

The shipment was formally handed over in Podgorica by the visiting Hungarian Foreign Minister, Peter Szijjarto, the Montenegrin health ministry said in a press release carried by Croatian state agency Hina.

Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020, Montenegro recorded about 100,000 cases – a sixth of the small country’s total population – including 1,619 deaths from Covid-19.