PM Orbán interview: “this virus will not just go away” – UPDATED
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The number of patients treated for Covid-19 in hospital has dropped below 1,000 and the number of active infections is below 100,000 for the first time in a long while, the prime minister said on Friday.
The number of patients in need of respiratory assistance is 121, Viktor Orbán told public broadcaster Kossuth Rádió in his regular interview. The number of those with active infection stands at 84,719, Orban said.
These people’s health is under threat, with some of them still struggling for their life,
he added.
The prime minister said that some 25,000 people had received their first jab and 117,000 got their second shot on Thursday. “This is good news, but another 3 million adults have not yet been inoculated, and it is a scientific fact that this virus will not just go away,” Orbán said.
He said many are wrong to believe that they can “escape” getting infected with coronavirus without being inoculated.
“This virus will find even the very last person who is unprotected,”
Orbán said, insisting that “only by getting vaccinated can we protect our own health and the health of our families”.
Organising the vaccination drive has been a huge challenge and the fact that Hungary has performed better than the US, which is a vaccine producer itself, in terms of first vaccinations is reason for self-respect, he added. Orbán said
everybody was afraid of the Indian variant of the virus and added that all the vaccines administered in Hungary without exception were able to combat it.
He described reports claiming that several EU member states would not allow entry for people inoculated with eastern vaccines as fear-mongering. “Many countries are not yet discussing travel options because they are still far from it but Hungary is signing a series of bilateral agreements that will enable free movement,” Orban said. A common European Union vaccination card might be available in July and it will oblige all member countries to allow entry for people inoculated with EU approved vaccines, he said. The countries will have the option to also accept other vaccines and “no country will want to block itself from tourists”, he added.
The next task now is to relaunch the country’s economy,
Orbán said. When the pandemic was at its peak, enacting measures to protect the economy was also important to save jobs and incomes, however, with the third wave “having been floored”, the focus must shift from protection to restarting the economy, he added. Orban said the 2022 budget would be dedicated to these efforts, adding that second-quarter figures for this year were already promising.
Commenting on an EU summit held this week, he said everybody agreed on the importance of climate protection but the positions varied on how the burdens should be distributed. Different countries cannot bear the same amount of burden, he said. The idea to make people pay the costs of climate protection might sound natural in the west where good living standards allow ample space of maneuvering for this but Hungary cannot and does not want to make people pay an extra tax for this purpose after several years dedicated to efforts to lower public utility fees.
Hungary must ensure it maintains – Epidemiological Protection Measures.
Deviation from this Scientific Medical advice platform, could see us “challenged” again by this still present and around us – novel corona virus.
The Human Barrier Wall – 80% of our population of 9.6 million vaccinated and fully Immunized must be accelerated to reach that 80% plus level.
Victoria, Australia – has again in the past 24 hours gone into a (7) seven day total lock down which has not been helped by a disastrously designed State and National vaccination program, which for (11) eleven weeks been in place.
Population of Australia – 26 million of which over (11) eleven weeks just 1.3 million citizens have been vaccinated.
Victoria which is the second largest populated state of Australia 5.8 million, less than 24 hours past, reported (1) nineteen aged care homes and facilities, residence not yet vaccinated.
Hungary – to ALL responsible – Thank-You – we have got our act to-gether and through vaccination HOPEFULLY the “zenith” of this novel coronavirus is of the past.
PLEASE – do not forget Residence Card Holders – Hungary – as is the status of residency of the writer who has been waiting in excess of (3) three weeks to be vaccinated.
It is noted – that Tuesday new case numbers – 213 = Wednesday – 396 = Thursday 448.
Hopefully just a “technical” adjustment and we return to see the trend downward.
Unfortunately, there is a new COVID19 variety – the “Indian mutation” – already here in Hungary.
Please, prepare yourselves for some more restrictions as a result of those “reluctant” individuals who refuse to be vaccinated.
Such individuals are irresponsible and do NOT CARE ABOUT ANYONE ELSE, JUST FORCING THEIR
CULPABLE WAYS onto innocent people which may cause death or at least illness in many.
There should be a limit to FREEDOM of movement for these persons as such individuals’ conduct could be construed as “criminal intent”.