Important changes to come in immunity certificates in Hungary!
The government has decided to add another week to the national vaccination drive now under way, the prime minister’s chief of staff said at a regular press conference on Thursday.
Gergely Gulyás said that changes to the validity of vaccination certificates with regard to the holder’s having received a booster jab were being considered. Gulyás also announced that
vaccines for the age group 5-11 would arrive in Hungary on December 13,
a week earlier than planned, adding that a total 2 million doses had been ordered.
Gulyás welcomed Hungary’s increasing vaccination rate, saying the country was in first place in the European Union in terms of the proportion of booster jabs administered, with 2.6 million Hungarians having received their third shot. Everyone who provided an email address when receiving their first shot will be contacted by email and invited to get a booster, he said, adding that the government trusted that people who wanted the first two shots would also want a third.
Referring to press criticism of Hungary’s vaccine purchases, Gulyás said the government had not changed its vaccination policy.
“The government estimated vaccine need correctly but it will make further purchases so shots are available for age groups that could not be vaccinated before,”
he said.
Gulyás said Hungary had all vaccine types available except for the Russian Sputnik V, adding that there was “an abundance” of vaccines on the international market and possible further purchases would not be difficult to make. Meanwhile, he said the scheme to
Gulyás said Hungary had all vaccine types available except for the Russian Sputnik V, adding that there was “an abundance” of vaccines on the international market and possible further purchases would not be difficult to make. Meanwhile, he said the scheme to
cap public utility fees would be rolled out to small companies and municipalities.
This, he added, was “one of the most important tools” the government had to fight inflation.
Gulyás said global energy prices were now “unrestrained”, and he warned that the price of electricity, which had “perhaps grown highest on the world market”, must not be applied to retail price calculations. He reiterated that scheme would also apply to Hungarian small businesses with up to an annual 4 billion forints (EUR 11m) net turnover or balance sheet total that employed fewer than ten people.
Gulyás said global energy prices were now “unrestrained”, and he warned that the price of electricity, which had “perhaps grown highest on the world market”, must not be applied to retail price calculations. He reiterated that scheme would also apply to Hungarian small businesses with up to an annual 4 billion forints (EUR 11m) net turnover or balance sheet total that employed fewer than ten people.
Local governments will also get the same access because “there appears to be significant demand for this among local councils”,
he said.
Gulyás also said it was important that the operations of local governments should go undisturbed and the situation resulting from the pandemic and the global market should pose the least extra burden on them. He said the National Bank of Hungary was making every effort to fight inflation, and the government was contributing to the fight by maintaining and expanding reduced public utility fees and fuel prices. It is hoped that Hungarian inflation figures will fall by the end of next year and “we can return to the ordinary path”, he added.
Source: MTI
The headline of this article says” Important changes to come in immunity certificates in Hungary!”. The actual article says nothing about that other than that “vaccination certificates with regard to the holder’s having received a booster jab were being considered.” Note the word considered, not decided. Another DNH article that makes bold claims but delivers nothing. Cheap sensationalism.