Travel issues of people with Eastern jabs to be solved?
An MEP for the opposition Socialist party has called on Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to seek out a solution at the upcoming EU summit to the travel restrictions of some 2 million Hungarians inoculated with Chinese and Russian Covid vaccines.
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Recipients of the Sinopharm and Sputnik vaccines cannot travel freely in Europe because the jabs are not accredited by the bloc, Istvan Ujhelyi told an online press conference on Wednesday.
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Újhelyi said the government had failed to raise the issue in the European Health Security Committee. He called on the prime minister to insist that the summit finds a solution to the situation of Hungarians “who
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have become second-class EU citizens”
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because of the “dubious purchase of the so-called Eastern vaccines”.
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“The government has done nothing about the issue, only seven member states have so far signed bilateral agreements on accepting the Eastern vaccines,” Újhelyi said.
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The government could solve the bind by concluding bilateral agreements with all member states on accepting the Russian and Chinese vaccines,
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Újhelyi said. Another solution would be that the EU accepts an EU-accredited booster jab after two Eastern vaccines as full inoculation, he said.
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