Coronavirus – Hungary could receive first vaccine shipments in late December
Hungary could receive its first shipment of the vaccine against Covid-19 in late December or early January, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday.
In his regular interview to public broadcaster Kossuth Radio, Orbán said that those suffering from chronic illnesses and the elderly population most vulnerable to the virus could be vaccinated around January.
Mass doses of the vaccine are expected to arrive in April, he added. The prime minister said he had instructed the operative board responsible for handling the epidemic to draw up a vaccination plan.
“It’s likely that in April we’ll all be rid of the epidemic and can declare victory over it,” he said.
Meanwhile, the prime minister said that from Monday the authorities would apply stricter sanctions for violations of coronavirus-related regulations.
Starting next week, police will have the authority to close restaurants and shops and recommend the cancellation of sporting and cultural events, he said. He underscored the importance of wearing face masks, saying that those who refused to comply with the rule were putting other people’s health at risk.
Hungary’s coronavirus curve is rising, Orbán said, adding that the daily new case and fatality trends were set to remain adverse.
Orbán added, at the same time, that public discipline regarding the restrictions was satisfactory in comparison with other countries. “But the situation is going to get more serious; we need more,” he said.
Concerning Thursday’s extraordinary video conference of the European Council, Orbán said the situation regarding Covid-19 was “far worse” in many western European countries than in Hungary.
In the video conference, EU leaders discussed the need for coordination in the handling of the pandemic through information sharing and the establishment of uniform border regulations, Orbán said. “The latter isn’t really working so far because some countries are more lenient while Hungary is stricter,” he said, adding that Hungary was also hesitant to accept Covid tests carried out in other countries.
As regards the question of implementing tougher restrictions, the prime minister said some countries had implemented “extremely tight” restrictions but were not seeing any improvement in their case numbers.
Knowing a bit how things go in the kingdom of Orbananas:
1. No vaccine will arrive in December.
2. Nobody will dare questioning why the inflated king lied again.
3. When, eventually, the vaccine will arrive, surely not in December, it will be either the lousy leftovers of Russia’s lousy vaccine, generously granted by Tsar Vladimir to his begging vassal for free or at discounted price, or it will be a Chinese vaccine bought at “officially” obscenely overpriced costs, with China and some oligarch friends of the inflated king sharing the Hu taxpayers’money officially paid but not actually given….
4. Again, nobody will dare questioning anything. Palinka-drinking naïve voters will keep supporting the inflated king and his court of corrupt mandarines.