Breaking – grand Hungarian reopening on Saturday?

Based on the vaccine delivery data announced by the Operative Body today, portfolio.hu recalculated the possible dates of the reopening milestones. According to their results, it is easy to know when the 4th million Hungarian will receive their first dose. Afterwards, uncertainty is significant even though the country expects huge transports of vaccines in the coming days.

According to portfolio.hu, since the beginning of the mass inoculation period on Monday, Hungarian authorities could administer the vaccine to 75 (Monday) and 95 (Tuesday) thousand people. Portfolio.hu says that, calculating with this acceleration trend, today 110 thousand while tomorrow 120 thousand citizens might receive their first dose.

As a result,

Hungary might reach the 4th million inoculated person on Friday or Saturday.

If that happens, those who already have a valid immunity card and are over 18 would be able to visit

  • baths,
  • gyms,
  • the interior of the catering units, not just the terraces,
  • hotels,
  • cinemas,
  • cultural events.

However, for the companies, it is not all the same whether they can open already on Saturday or just Sunday. Therefore, Gergely Gulyás, minister of the Prime Minister’s Office, is expected to tell details on the government info tomorrow, or PM Viktor Orbán in his regular radio interview on Friday early.

Based on portfolio.hu, from May 7-8 on

the problem will not be the number of available vaccines but their administration and their acceptance,

especially in the case of the Chinese Sinopharm.

On Saturday, 600 thousand doses arrived from that, and the government plane already started to bring 400 thousand more today. Yesterday arrived 355,680 jabs of Pfizer, 480 thousand Sputnik V, 24 thousand Janssen, and 19,200 AstraZeneca. Furthermore, 324 thousand is expected to arrive from the latter this week, together with 44,400 Moderna vaccines.

These amounts would allow Hungary to inoculate even 150 thousand people every day. The different surveys show that the number of those who would accept the vaccine is rising. Currently, that stands at 4.82 million, while together with those who would probably take it is 5.94 million. The number of those who already registered is above 4.5 million currently.

The problem is

how Hungary can convince more people to accept the vaccines. Based on experts, six million people is not enough to fully reopen the country.

That would mean no foreign travels, summer festivals, or organising mass events. The government plans to inoculate adolescents in the 16-18 age group. For them, a separate Pfizer shipment arrived yesterday.

 

10 Comments

  1. And out of the four million, how many of these have had the second vaccination. One vaccine doesn’t make you immune. It takes at least two months to get full immunity. I don’t want to sit anywhere with other people knowing many of us have only had the first vaccine. It’s still not safe enough. Imagine someone coughing in a cinema, everyone would leave. As we all know the UK have vaccinated millions of people, and millions have also had the second vaccination, yet families can still only meet outside (with limited numbers) in their gardens, not indoors. Just let the figures settle down a bit more from this latest easing of restrictions.

  2. Well all is interesting but if you still have not this green card after 6 weeks of getting a vaccine first dose would the doctors paper that you get would be enough to let you into this new wave of opening ?
    Again many questions to be asked and how a foreign passport holder yet permanent resident of Hungary can still obtain this blinking green card cos I am still waiting for it. When all the boxes are checked TB card and employment in Hungary. Can I take this country to court for racism probably not so come on EU and bring your vaccination passport…

  3. If you feel unsafe or uncertain going to public places after the “reopening” the obvious answer is don’t go.
    No one is forcing anyone to do anything.
    This is what the majority of people decided when the questionnaire was put to the public.
    I may agree with being more cautious but you can’t go against the wishes of the majority.

  4. The questionnaire was nothing more than a publicity stunt, we all know that! Having to register to answer seven questions, come on. Only 528,000 people took part in it anyway, everyone else knew it made no difference what answer they put and therefore had no interest in completing it. Might as well have asked is the sky blue! Everyone just needs to be more cautious. Listen to the science not the government.

  5. My unequivocal position remains in that Hungary is running high risks in continuing to open it-self up.
    The impact of this novel corona virus – SUPPORTED – by Scientific Medical Data – FACTUAL – is for Hungary – to Immunize 80% plus of its population – with the Approved vaccines – not the Russian nor Chinese “conglomerations”.
    In expressing my opinion, this on-going opening up of Hungary further confirms a comment I contributed in the past :
    That this virus, is a Battle of Attitudes, as well as a Health issue.
    Governments “drive” to re-open Hungary – WRONG – in my opinion, this does throw greater Challenges to us in our actions of Responsibility – our Attitudes – and our Health.
    St. Luke – please pray for us.

  6. The government should also think about those who doesn’t have a TAJ number. There are a lot of people that accept the vaccine and it cannot take it.

  7. Thalidomide – its use in women some of which were or got pregnant in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s – used in 46 countries, resulted in the “biggest man made medical disaster ever”.
    It’s use resulted in and Hungary did not escape the use of Thalidomide it’s use, more than 10,000 children born with multitude forms of deformities, as well as thousands of miscarriages.
    This humanitarian global disaster prompted countries to introduce tougher rules for the testing and licensing of drugs, that required applicants to prove efficacy and disclose ALL side effects encountered under testing.
    Thalidomide’s re- introduction into medical human use in the late 1990’s – after countless numbers of “law court battles” and other penetrating investigations – sees it universally used in modern medicine to treat a wide range of cancers.
    Hope and Confidence in Modern Medicine – the dedicated, brilliant and gifted minds and the technology they have to work with in the 21st century, that we witness – NOTHING – occurring to mankind like Thalidomide imposed in the 1950′ and 1960’s – caused through vaccines being used to-day in humans in our fight against this novel coronavirus.
    Russian and Chinese vaccines – the “jury” still rests – as to the validity of these universally un-approved vaccines for human Immunization.
    St. Luke – please pray for us.

  8. What about all the people that had the first vaccine but have not received the card yet (sorry to say, but it seems mostly foreign citizens…). Beside a short note from the Government to get in touch with the public offices, not much has been said about this.
    I think that it would be fair to shed some light over this, since it doesn’t look like an isolated issue anymore…

  9. Can you please write an article about all the people who have not received the card after the first vaccine shot?
    It seems that mostly these are foreign citizens and it’s not really an isolated problem. Many people are having the very same issue.

  10. What about all the people who received the first vaccine shot and still don’t get the immunity card after several weeks? It seems lots of people are having this issue, mostly foreign citizens…
    Can you write an article about it and shed some light on the matter?

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