Government declares Hungary one of Europe’s safest countries
Hungary continues to be one of the safest countries in Europe in terms of Covid-19, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office told his weekly press conference on Thursday.
Gergely Gulyás said the government had evaluated the coronavirus situation in Hungary and in Europe, and established that “the Hungarian dimension continues to be the best”.
Hungary has retained its second place in Europe with regard to the ratio of fully inoculated residents, while the country has sufficient reserves of coronavirus vaccines, he said, adding that “we are in the position to inoculate anybody at any time”.
The government will take steps to further increase Hungary’s vaccination rate in the coming weeks, Gulyás said.
The government has discussed issues around a possible third coronavirus shot, mandatory vaccination, as well as increasing the vaccination rate of the elderly and of the 12-16 age group, Gulyás said, adding that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will make relevant announcements on Friday.
All jabs used in Hungary effective
All Covid-19 vaccines in use in Hungary are effective and capable of providing protection in the event of a fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic, the prime minister’s chief of staff said on Thursday.
Addressing a regular press briefing, Gergely Gulyás said that “those working to create distrust in vaccines” were discouraging people from getting inoculated, thereby putting them at risk of dying.
The government considers the efforts to create distrust in certain vaccines for political gain “extremely harmful”, Gulyás said.
“The benign assumption is that there are political interests behind these efforts, while the malicious one is that it’s about the business interests of pharmaceutical companies,” he said.
Gulyás urged political players and journalists to accept the findings of science and not to use the issue of vaccines to help certain political parties.
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Source: MTI
We research and form our own opinions and make judgements. That’s why we know there is still a question mark over the Sinopharm vaccine. Science has proved it’s not as effective, science outside Hungary. The vaccine does work but the efficacy isn’t as high and is unknown against the Delta variant. The important thing to note is, if China hasn’t published the results then how can Mr Gulyás claim all vaccines are safe and work against COVID and their variants. It goes against human nature to believe everything that is said. Start treating the citizens of Hungary with a bit more respect.
The minister should explain why Hungary has got one of or perhaps the highest percentage of Covid-related deaths in the world.
To Melinda,
If it was good enough for the World Health Organisation and they past it as a safe and effective vaccine,
then it should be acceptable to little old me and you as well.
It is not very sporting to create fear and fake news.
It’s not about not being sporting or creating fear or fake news, it’s fact. It’s in the Lancet. It’s the efficacy that’s in question. Explain then how the government can say it works against the Delta variant when China themselves have not published the data regarding this fact.
To Proven,
Although China is not exactly OPEN about statistics, it looks as though they are DOING VERY WELL,
THANK YOU.