Coronavirus – Hungarian government weighing return to earlier restrictions
The government is weighing the reintroduction of each of the restrictive measures it introduced during the first wave of the coronavirus epidemic in the spring, Katalin Novák, the minister for family affairs, said on Monday.
Hungary’s coronavirus situation is no easier than it was a month ago and is expected to get even more difficult, Novák told a meeting of the Council of the Elderly.
The government will decide on its next steps in handling the epidemic on Tuesday and Wednesday, and it is seeking the opinions of the elderly so that it can make the right calls, she added.
The aim is to ensure that the protective measures are as effective as possible and save as many lives as possible, the minister said.
Novák said the epidemic was posing serious challenges to the country’s health-care system, adding that this was why the government had tightened its Covid-related regulations.
Hungary’s handling of the first wave by international standards was successful, and the goal is to achieve the same outcome when it comes to the second wave, she said.
Just as in the spring, Hungary is again keeping its eye on Austria’s epidemic response, Novák said. Because of the similarities between the two countries, the government expects the epidemiological situation to be similar as well, she said, adding that this meant the situation was expected to get “more dramatic” in Hungary in the coming days.
Cecília Müller, the chief medical officer, said
Hungary was “going full steam ahead” to develop a coronavirus vaccine. People over the age of 65 make up one-fifth of the country’s population, she noted, adding that the aim was to make society more cooperative.
Concentrations of the virus in wastewater are rising all around the country, Müller said, pointing out that this meant the epidemic “is nowhere near peaking”.
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Source: MTI
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Another lock down will not stop anything except peoples employment and income. It will cause a good number of small businesses to go out of business and all this for a virus that is no more deadly than the seasonal flu to otherwise healthy people. Only those with compromised immune systems from cancer, serious heart disease, alcoholism or obesity seem to make up the majority of those succumbing to this virus. A vaccine will not keep people from dying if they have other health issues and a rush to immunize people with a vaccine that is unproven may maim or kill a good number of recipients. I am sorry to say this but politicians don’t care about the elderly and sick, they are using this pandemic for another ulterior purpose. Why or what it is remains to be discovered.