Hungarian govt defends vaccination programme and awaits further shipments of Sputnik V vaccines
The left wing’s anti-vaccination campaign is “just as unscrupulous as it looks”, and if they are capable of endangering people’s lives in the midst of a pandemic, then “they are capable of any grim action”, state secretary Csaba Dömötör said on public radio on Sunday.
Dömötör told Kossuth Radio experts agree that any vaccine is better than the coronavirus; regardless, the left wing’s anti-vaccination campaign is underway in more and more places.
The left wing has attacked the vaccine licencing process conducted by Hungarian experts on a number of occasions, it has collected signatures against certain vaccines, and DK leader Ferenc Gyurcsány and various mayors have sent letters to GPs asking them not to use some vaccines, he said.
He added that the same left wing that demanded restrictions be lifted two weeks earlier, is now calling healthcare leaders to account.
Dömötör said there were enough hospital beds and ventilators to manage the pandemic, but restrictions must remain in place to prevent frontline health-care workers from being burdened any further. He said the vaccination rollout is progressing well.
“We see the light at the end of the tunnel, but we still have a long way to go,” he added.
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On another front of the vaccination programme, Péter Szijjártó reported that further doses of vaccines will arrive this evening:
Some 250,000 doses of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid vaccine are expected to arrive in Hungary on Sunday evening, the foreign minister said.
Szijjártó said on Facebook that vaccination was the “only recipe for victory” in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. This requires vaccines and “the good news is that a Hungarian cargo aircraft has again set off on Sunday, and it is expected to return from Moscow tonight with 250,000 doses of Sputnik vaccine”, he added.
Once the national public health centre clears the vaccines for use, they will be distributed to vaccination points and “another big step can be taken toward having 2.5 million people vaccinated”, he said.
The Hungarian cargo aircraft will remain in service next week, when 180,000 doses of vaccine are expected to arrive from Moscow, to be followed by another shipment of 250,000 doses, Szijjártó said.
That means a total of 680,000 doses of Russian vaccine will arrive in Hungary in less than two weeks’ time, Szijjártó added.
Source: MTI
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If the extreme right, and yes I do mean Fidesz, put half as much effort into defeating this pandemic as they do in slating the opposition, I’m sure we’d be doing far better. Instead they just point the finger and say everything’s the fault of the left. Meanwhile people’s lives and the economy are damaged further. The simple truth is they don’t know what to do as much of the country is skeptical of Sputnik V and Sinopharm and therefore won’t sign up for any vaccine in case they get either of those. There may well be nothing wrong with either of those vaccines but a picture of politicians being vaccinated with either isn’t enough to persuade the rest of the country.
Transparent Factual Scientific Medical Data – disclose it to the Citizens of Hungary – lay it out on the table – in these darkening worsening hours for decades that we are in.
Candour – must and as citizens we must demand it by peaceful processes, come out of the mouths by our Government.
The up-coming National Elections – remember peoples votes – the power there votes speak – there attitude will in 1922 – muchly determine if there has been Candour or Fabrication of Truth by propaganda, that is Politically driven from our present Government.
If the Russian & Chinese Vaccines match those approved by the European Union and the United Kingdom and America – then citizens of Hungary will consider being vaccinated by these in-proven vaccines.
Remove from the games of Political propaganda the – be seen to be doing something – rhetoric – when in fact, citizens lives by inoculation of Scientific Medically approved vaccines should be at the forefront of Governments thinking, and not by the Russian nor Chinese conglomeration.
Medical Statistics indicate that we Hungary are nearing that 1 in every 500 citizens – our population 9.6 million – have lost there lives to this novel coronavirus.
We will sadly see darker times going forward as the Zenith of the ramifications that have still to play out and leave of this novel coronavirus are before us and TRUTH will assist us citizens – in what still is to unfold in these darkened hours in our proud History.
Wow! Comments here, coming from the Left hand is not knowing what the Right hand(and i do mean the correct hand) is doing!