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Hungary delays school reopening after teachers, students protest
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Hungary will push back the reopening of secondary schools by three weeks to May 10, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told state radio on Friday, after teachers and students called for a delay for pandemic-related reasons.
Orbán said he hoped 3.5 million of Hungary’s 10 million people would receive at least one coronavirus vaccine dose by April 19, allowing curbs to be eased further.
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Hungary began a gradual reopening of shops and services on Wednesday after it inoculated 25% of its population in a move that, with hospitals still overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients, the Hungarian Medical Chamber called premature.
Facing an election in 2022 and determined to avoid another year of recession, Orbán is opening up the economy after accelerating vaccinations.
Hungary has imported the EU’s highest number of vaccine doses per capita though, according to Johns Hopkins University data, it leads the world in daily new confirmed COVID-19 deaths per capita.
As we all know, most children are a RESERVOIR of infectious diseases.
The Hungarian Government should make it COMPULSORY for all children over the age of 12 to be vaccinated for COVID-19 using the Pfizer vaccine.
Recent studies (reported on March 31st in ‘THE GUARDIAN’ newspaper) have found that vaccine to be safe and effective for children between the ages of 12 and 15.
There is NO excuse for mass vaccination of children NOT to proceed in Hungary once the required number of Pfizer vaccines are obtained.