Orbán cabinet: Restaurants to reopen only once mass vaccinations under way
Reopening restaurants and other catering facilities will depend on how quickly Hungary can get hold of vaccines and have its population vaccinated, Zoltán Kovács, the state secretary for international communications and relations, told MTI on Monday.
Kovács called the impatience of Hungarian caterers understandable, adding that the pandemic had hit the sector all over Europe.
“The vaccine is the key,” he said, adding that catering facilities would gradually reopen once mass vaccinations are under way.
Kovács noted that some European countries had restarted the sector prematurely, triggering a third wave of the epidemic and forced them to close the catering units again.
Kovács said that the situation in Hungary was “quite promising”, and the restrictions in place were containing the epidemic, adding that haste would compromise results achieved so far and the summer catering season as a whole.
As vaccines from Brussels are in short supply, the government is negotiating with other potential suppliers, Kovács said, noting that
it had reached an agreement on the deliveries of Russian vaccines and would be prepared to purchase Chinese vaccines as soon as possible.
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Source: MTI
The World Health Organization has estimated that 70% of a population needs to be Vaccinated to achieve Herd Immunity.
Zoltan Kovac’s the State Secretary for International Communication and Relations, would have known the World Health Organization opinion, prior to him commenting on the subject(s) of this article.
Hungary – through the efforts of our Government, the quicker we can reach this 70% of population vaccination, it would mean safer grounds we would walk.
The vaccine(s) of use in Hungary, should be under the banner of the European Union approval use process.
Russian and Chinese version of the vaccine being considered by Hungary to speed up the 70% herd immunity base, the scientific data, is the key to considering either or both of these vaccines.
If no Medical Scientific Data is received from Russia or China, and presented in form to the citizens of Hungary, this could be an ongoing problem to get to a level of 70% herd immunity, in a time frame that our Government does or would have in its vaccination program.