Breaking – government wants to vaccinate everybody above 45
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GPs received two emails about the new program from the National Health Insurance Fund of Hungary on Tuesday. Their content is that since large quantities of vaccines are expected to arrive in Hungary at the end of April, the government plans to inoculate everybody above 45 in only ten days.
According to telex.hu, news came on Monday that Botond Sára, leader of the Budapest Metropolitan Government Office, promised money for the GPs if they use Sinopharm, but later the central team denied that.
István György, head of the central team, wrote in the emails that the government plans mass inoculation
between April 26-30, and May 3-5.
He clears that, thanks to the large quantities of vaccines expected to arrive in the next few days, the program needs the active cooperation of the whole Hungarian healthcare system.
However, based on Budapest GPs, many of the people refuse to accept Sinopharm vaccines. Telex.hu wrote before that there are GPs who care for more than 2,000 people, but they could convince only a few dozens of them to take the Chinese jab.
The news website says that, based on the letters, the government would like to inoculate all those who registered and are above 45.
That is probably because the new variants of the virus are more dangerous for the younger generations than the original one starting to spread last spring.