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Daily News Hungary Daily News Hungary · 24/05/2023
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Hungary preparing for another health crisis?

Hungary has taken all necessary and possible measures since the coronavirus pandemic to be prepared for another potential health crisis and be able to protect people’s lives, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Geneva on Tuesday.

The ministry cited Szijjártó telling the World Health Organisation (WHO) general assembly that the past three years had involved several challenges and one of the most serious ones was the coronavirus pandemic.

The most important task of the international community would be to prepare for potential future challenges, he said, adding that over-politicising international health care should be avoided, MTI reported.

He added that politics and ideology had nothing to do with saving people’s lives and if geopolitics are mixed up with health issues, it will cost many lives.

The lesson learnt from Hungary’s successful epidemic management was that taking geopolitical issues into consideration would have resulted in many more victims.

Had Hungary waited for the European Commission’s president to order vaccines “by text message”, much fewer lives could have been saved, he added. The government took action instead, and purchased Eastern vaccines whose effectiveness was tested by Hungarian experts, he said.

As a result, Hungary was able to launch the fastest vaccination campaign in the European Union and was able to lift restrictions as the first member state, he said. Hungary was even able to offer 8.6 million doses of vaccine to countries in need, he added.

The pandemic has made it clear that it is vitally important to set up strategic reserves even if they are considered unnecessary or too expensive under normal circumstances, he said.

Szijjártó said Hungary had taken all necessary measures to be prepared for the next potential health crisis, citing the purchase of cargo aircraft, building a national vaccine plant and ventilator production plant, and being ready to produce protective masks and gloves.

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2 Comments

  1. Cigány ország says:
    24/05/2023 at 11:30

    “The lesson learnt from Hungary’s successful epidemic management”. The number of deaths compared to the size of the population is the 4th highest in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_death_rates_by_country

    Huge success by our Viktator!

  2. Larry says:
    24/05/2023 at 13:36

    Pure propaganda from Putin puppet Peter Szijjarto. Hungary purchased Sputnik vaccine from Russia for obvious political reasons because Russians are their friends and then pushed this ineffective vaccine along with Sinopharm vaccine on Hungarians who didn’t want it. Hungarians have since revaccinated themselves with Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. You couldn’t travel internationally if you were vaccinated with Sputnik. The government’s poor handling of Covid resulted in one of the highest death rates in the world. Eastern Europe in general faired poorly and it may be explained in part by low vaccine uptake and generally lax cultural attitudes toward public health. We live in Canada but the only place we ever got Covid was in Hungary – myself once and my wife twice. Pfizer vaccine prevented it from being anymore than a mild cold. So many people died in Hungary. Whole families. Hospitals were a war zone. It was a nightmare worse in some villages than it ever was in Budapest.

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