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.
Source: MTI