Hungarian government introduces immunity certificate
The government has decided to introduce certificates of immunity from coronavirus for people who have been inoculated or recovered from Covid-19, the prime minister’s chief of staff said on Thursday.
Speaking at his regular weekly press briefing, Gergely Gulyás said that the certificate would be issued to people who have received the second shot of the vaccine, and indicate the date of administering the second jab.
Those recovered from Covid-19 will be issued a certificate indicating the date of their release from hospital or their first negative PCR after their infection, or the tenth day after their first positive PCR test result, Gulyás said.
He added that both kind of certificates could be provided free of charge.
Alternatively, persons recovered from Covid-19 could obtain a certificate based on results from a certified laboratory, Gulyas said, but added that in this case applicants would be charged a fee for the document.
“We hope this document, too, will help get things back to normal as soon as possible,” he said, adding that the government had yet to decide what sort of exemptions certificate-holders will be entitled to.
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Meanwhile, he said thatHungary expects to take delivery of the first shipment of China’s Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine next week.
The first batch will contain 500,000 doses, Gergely Gulyás told a weekly press briefing, adding that Hungary’s public health authority still had to assess the vaccine.
Hungary is also set to receive 200,000 doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine this month, Gulyás said.
He said that though the rollout of the jabs procured by the European Union was still taking too long, Hungary expects to resume inoculating people in the oldest age group as well as those under the age of 60 with chronic illnesses next week. Vaccinations will also resume at social institutions where they had to be suspended, he added.
Meanwhile, Gulyás said that more than 300,000 people will have received their first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine in Hungary by the end of Thursday. Altogether 294,624 people received their first Covid shots by Wednesday and more than 117,000 have been fully inoculated, he said.
Some 30,000 elderly people will be inoculated by their general practitioners using the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Gulyás said. Meanwhile, those without chronic illnesses under the age of 75 will be inoculated using the Sputnik V jab at hospitals, he said.
People under 60 with chronic illnesses are also being inoculated using the AstraZeneca vaccine, he added.
The government is in talks with more vaccine manufacturers “and the reason why we need to procure vaccines from every possible source is to ensure that life can get back to normal as quickly as possible”, he said.
Hungary has also asked the EU to speed up its vaccine deliveries, which the commission has promised to do, Gulyás said.
The PM’s chief of staff also said that though Hungary had got the second wave of the pandemic under control thanks to its restrictions introduced on Nov. 11, the pandemic was now in a phase of stagnation while the rest of Europe was experiencing a third wave.
The UK variant of the virus is spreading more easily in Hungary as well, he said, adding that this could lead to another uptick in cases.
Meanwhile, government spokeswoman Alexandra Szentkirályi said the government has earmarked the necessary funding for its latest National Consultation public survey concerning when to lift coronavirus restrictions.
The survey will be accessible online at the website vakcinainfo.gov.hu in a few days, she said, urging the public to fill it out.
Last year, the government also used the results of a nationwide survey to shape the response measures that have been in effect since November, Szentkirályi said.
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Source: MTI
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9 Comments
Great news, how do we get this certificate?
Great News but :
When is the Government going to announce the procedure for Holders of Residence Permit Cards – not Permanent Residence Cards, who are covered by the Hungarian Government under a Health Scheme – when will Residence Permit Card Holders – when can we be EXPECTED to be vaccinated ?
We do not expect it FREE of CHARGE – but when will we be able to get Vaccinated ?
We are 60 plus in years and this situation is concerning and stressful.
COMMUNICATION – please.
Hey Albert, stay cool buddy! The government is working overtime to get as many sources approved and into the country. Your health matters to them equal as you can get sick yourself and at the same time pass it along. So everybody starting with the vunerable to the least will have access as soon as they make it possible. They have no interest in your money here. I feel the article slipped off a bit in pointing out everyone has the possibility of being identified either vacinated (prepared) or survivor (previously exposed/recovered). I dont see why the later need a certificate, unless they cant have the dose so soon after recovery but want to travel, hence a surcharge for something outside.
Your lucky to be where you are as you’ll see the vaccine before i will. Hungary did not let politics get in the way to protect all living there. I’m a Hungarian living in Canada and here our prime minister office messed it up by not thinking, not getting any joint venture production planned or set up! Thinking that by throwing money at the Pharma groups, they would single us out over every other country, wrong! Instead, they stay at home social distancing themselves, like a higher government will swoop in and save everyone here.
To all the nay-sayers, Orban Victor saw through this pandemic from the start much like Trumps team, while the opposition continued to flog them for anything they could find.
Stay safe and stay patient like you have always shown, you and the rest will get your vaccine soon and without charge.
Vedo -Thank-You.
Yes we must remain Patient and Tolerant.
The road ahead fraught with deep uncertainty.
This citizen vaccination programme is not the end of this pandemic, not even the beginning of the end but maybe the end of the beginning.
Stay Safe and Well – You and Yours.
Yes the sun will come up again to-morrow.
Albert.
I am grateful to get the vaccine but is it in Hungarian?
The certificate is mainly for travel and will not be accepted in any other country.
English is a globally used language, perhaps it should be offered in English too, of course for an extra fee.
Don’t you people see they (elite) are building a totalitarian state? Did you ever hear of crowed control through propaganda and indoctrination by creating fear?
This virus is according to many European and American medical doctors/scientists of name not more than a severe flu for some and for the majority of people it causes mild to no symptoms. Many of them are warning for many months against this madness,
We are stripped of all our rights and freedom. That certificate is the next step to get total control over the population.
Do your research instead of buying in to the propaganda and scaremongering of the elite.
@Geza the Fiddler
You sound yourself like a fear mongerer by trying to incite fear of your global elitists. Fine, if your not concerned about this flu for the susceptable, then DONT TAKE THE VACCINE. 2 Million dead can’t be wrong. In fact, eat all the greasiest Hamburgers and fast foods you can find too. This Heart and Stroke stuff is a bunch of non-sense too?
what is the most absurde…. The vaccinated people are not necessarily immun at all, and they probably will transmit the virus, because THEY have now the virus in themselfs and the non vaccinated should be carefull getting in touch with them ! If you have one single cell in your brain, you do not take this vaccine which is not a vaccine, but a modifying genetic messanger in your body. The consequences are: Paralyses, Analphlactic shock, terrible auto-immune illnesses, and death
@Dr. Anat Kálmán
As a Dr. of what are you? B.S. ?? Your theories on vaccinated vs non-vaccinated are another attempt at fear mongering. My son is a Dr of Medicine/Surgeon and laughed at your phoney attempt to scare people here. If I didn’t know better, I’d swear it was that Troll Mario brother… Nothing of what you said is true, just a big dumb uneducated lie that was dreamt up by a bunch that calls themselves ‘informed’.
Congratulations, you make number 2 for fear mongering in this article…