The opposition Párbeszéd party has called on the government to apologise for the “unprofessional way” it introduced the Sinopharm vaccine and for “misleading people”.
In his radio interview on Friday, the prime minister tacitly admitted that opposition demands to make a third booster jab available had been warranted, the party’s deputy group leader, Sándor Burány, told an online press briefing. He said the minister of foreign affairs and trade had been responsible for giving Sinopharm vaccine the go-ahead in Hungary for “political reasons”, and the European Medicines Agency had not approved the jab at the time.
Hungary’s medicines authority gave emergency approval to Sinopharm.
Burány said people over the age of 65 in Hungary had come “under pressure” to accept the Sinopharm jab, whereas it was deemed inappropriate for over-60s in other countries.
He noted that when opposition politicians, citing the concerns of experts, asked the government to test recipients to determine whether Sinopharm had provided adequate protection, the government responded by accusing the opposition of being anti-vaxxers.
Tests carried out independently of the government do not paint a reassuring picture, he said, adding that Sinopharm’s efficacy in people over the age of sixty was “much weaker” than that of any other vaccine.
In a separate press conference, Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony called for a vaccination campaign targeting citizens over 60 who have received the Sinopharm vaccine. Karácsony urged “swifter, more active and more proactive” measures to administer booster jabs to elderly recipients, and called on the government to pledge not to give Sinopharm vaccines to people over 60.
Gergely Arató, the deputy group leader of the opposition Democratic Coalition, said Orbán’s announcement was an
“open confession that the government had put elderly people at risk by forcing the Sinopharm vaccine on them.”
The government information centre KTK said in response that half of Hungarians would have not received any kind of vaccination had it been up to the left wing to make decisions. “Had it been up to the left wing, Hungary would not be the most protected European country … and half of Hungarians would not have even been vaccinated,” the KTK said in a statement on Friday.
Expert: the 4th wave comes in September, people above 60 should get a third jab
Source: MTI
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6 Comments
I don’t understand what is the matter with these simpletons !
The World Health Organisation officially recognised the efficacy of Sinopharm vaccine.
Why are these boof-heads (who obviously are not trained and in no position to comment) allowed to stir up this sort of controversy?
It could be construed as criminal as this is a deliberate attempt to make innocent people insecure or worse, result in people losing their lives.
This is a very dark aspect of some deranged human beings.
I can also see how the opposition is ‘eating themselves-up’ seeing how successful the vaccine campaign
has been in Hungary.
You have to be really blind not to see the deliberate attempts – at any cost, even human lives – to misguide and derail at every stage.
Shame on the Hungarian opposition who are totally lacking in humanity.
They are the ones who should apologise to the Hungarian people !
The Hungarian government inoculated Sinopharm to the Hungarian people, which is a vaccine with low efficacy and obscure testing. And at the same time, they gave Pfizer to other countries and refused getting proper vaccines from the EU.
The Hungarian government used the Hungarian people for their personal and political benefits.
The previous comment shows the typical Fidesz voter (low educational level and consuming propaganda) as WHO recommends Sinopharma only for emergencies due to its low efficacy compared to other vaccines. But let’s be fair here, Hungary has the second mortality rate in the world due to COVID with an underfunded healthcare system; so probably Hungary is really in a health emergency situation.
Why the government is refusing to get more Pfizer vaccines from the EU while still using Sinopharma on the Hungarian people? Any vaccine is better than nothing, but it’s proven the low efficacy of Sinopharma.
When the government is going to disclose the deals with Russia and China? I don’t want to go back to communism, please!
It is quite obvious where these two people come from ARPAD and KATALIN.
SENSELESS ACCUSATIONS ABOUT A VACCINE THAT HAS NOT BEEN ACCEPTED BY THE EU FOR PURELY POLITICAL REASONS.
THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION HAS ACCEPTED IT AS A SAFE AND EFFECTIVE VACCINE.
Further more there were not enough PFIZER VACCINES AVAILABLE AT THE TIME WHEN THERE WERE TRULY EMERGENCY SITUATIONS.
DUE TO THE STUPIDITY AND THE CORRUPT HANDLING OF THE WHOLE VACCINE PROJECT BY THE EU.
Why don’t you look at ASTRA ZENEKA?
LEAVE THE DECISIONS TO THE EXPERTS!!!!!!!
To Arpad :
People who realise your intent will recognise whose education levels are low, and who is driven by
a political agenda.
That’s all you have in your reasoning reserves?
HOW PATHETIC!
I just want to see justice done.
I happen to love my country and am not prepared to sell out for any underhanded politician.
Thank God you will never be able to have any influence on the government’s decision-making.
Only ignorant people use the term “low educational standard” when they have nothing else to argue with.