From February 15th, Hungarians will only be eligible for a vaccination certificate if they have received the third, booster jab or took the second dose not longer than 6 months ago, the prime minister’s chief of staff said on Thursday.
For those under 18 years of age, 2 jabs will suffice to obtain a certificate, previously called an immunity certificate, Gergely Gulyás told a regular press conference. “The significance of having recovered from the coronavirus will change after the Omicron variant,” Gulyás said. “It’s the vaccine that ensures protection, rather than having recovered from the disease.”
Taking the booster jab, available for adults from four months after the second dose, will be required for a valid vaccination certificate,
he said.
Last year’s economic growth in Hungary could be as high as 6.5-7 percent, an “unprecedented economic achievement since 1989”, the prime minister’s chief of staff said on Thursday.
Gergely Gulyás told a regular press briefing that last year’s economic figures were “encouraging”, with indicators in November and December better than expected despite “a number of hardships” 2021 had brought. He said the automotive sector could have performed better if not for the global chip shortage.
Concerning a Wednesday announcement of a rollback of food prices, he said the move would make life easier for those struggling to make ends meet.
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Source: MTI
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Something smells a rat with these regulations. I’ve never heard any doctor proclaiming that covid19 vaccines trump natural immunity. In fact, the opposite has been said time and again, even as far as showing increased chances of catching covid19 after the Pfizer jab. Are they having a conflict of interest? God knows if they’re being “tipped” by big pharmaceutical companies.
Same goes with this excellent growth rate as there’s no context in it. Perhaps 2020 sucked so much that even a small recovery could count as “growth”. By the way, inflation figures are absent as well.
@Nelson, you are rather missing the point. Vaccinations mitigate the risks of being seriously ill with Covid versus being unvaccinated. Further, natural immunity, rather like the protection afforded by vaccines, is time limited: many people have had Covid twice. I was looking at UK government figures the other day, 96% of those currently hospitalised for Covid are unvaccinated and 99% of Covid patients in ICU are unvaccinated. The Uk is a good example because of the population size and the very rigorous compilation of data that the National Health Service collects and supplies to the Office of National Statistics.
Put Simply – comments just re-affirm – Get Vaccinated as this lessens – RADICALLY – of you being Hospitalised.
Vaccination/Immunization – Saves Lives.
Those who CHOOSE – not to be Vaccinated/Immunized – the Medical Statistics Global Scientific Data continues to GROW, that highlights – they will SUCCUMB – to this on-going Novel Virus current/present strain titled Omicron.
Medical Statistical Global Scientific Data – rapidly approaching figures – that within the next (7) seven days – the population numbers of Human beings in Europe – that 50% – will have been infected by this on-going Novel Virus.
Vaccination/Immunization – is not the end of this Novel Virus.
It may be the beginning of the end but a return to what appears normality of human life we knew pre February 2020 – layers of change still to Challenge us – in the DRASTICALLY – changed world we live post February 2020.
This Virus – the challenges it presents to Humans – is a Battle of Attitudes as well as a Health Issue.
You can just go look at the data yourself from the nhs. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccine-weekly-surveillance-reports I’ll use the one that came out yesterday as an example, 13 January 2022.
It says on page 41 “Death within 28 days of positive COVID-19 test by date of death between week 50 2021 and week 1 2022” over 50 it’s 2,964 people and 795 of them aren’t vaccinated. That is nowhere close to being 99%. People in comment threads here and elsewhere, all over the news, they are flat out lying and being gross people.
From page 42 of the same report. “Death within 60 days of positive COVID-19 test by date of death between week 50 2021 and week 1 2022” over 50 it’s 3,718 people and 905 of them aren’t vaccinated.
Note that all those percentages (including the false ones) are for *Unvaccinated* some of which might have had Covid previously, but likely most did not. A study in Israel (covering some 3 million people) showed that the natural immunity you get from having had the disease makes you 8 times less likely to end up in hospital than the (Pfizer) vaccine.
There are also indications that natural immunity (not to be confused with antibodies count, which is just one sign of immunity) lasts much longer than the vaccine.
In the case of omicron, the jury is still out, but preliminary figures seem to show that natural immunity is still far better than the vaccine. This is to be expected, because people getting the virus are exposed to many proteins present in the virus, and their bodies learn to recognize and attack many of them, whereas the vaccine only exposes the patient to one protein, the spike protein (which is very different in the omicron strain).
The only problem with natural immunity is that to get it, first you need to survive the first infection. While for young and healthy people, who stay in shape, exercise regularly and have good/high levels of vitamin D this is the most probable outcome, it is not guarantied. In case you’re wondering: no, it’s not a random list, there is a study from South Korea showing the effect of exercise and other studies have shown a strong (inverse) correlation between vitamin D levels and severity of covid cases. There are also very good data indicating that whether you are vaccinated or not and had another strain or not, death from omicron is much, much rarer than from delta or any other previous strain.
What governments (and other people) should be doing is provide clear (and true) information about all this so that each individual can assess the risk of death or sequels from the disease and from the vaccines (which are still experimental, and don’t yet have definitive approval) and decide which risk he or she wants to take, instead of trying to give a one-size-fits-all mandate. The government just cannot take the right decision for everyone.