Index – National – How much does the government risk if it relaxes even for a day?

At tomorrow’s meeting, the government will decide whether to lift the restrictions on Christmas Eve. “It is not yet clear,” Viktor Orbán himself said in a December 18 interview on public radio. The prime minister says “one night could fit in,” but he doesn’t want people to take risks, so he asked everyone to stay home.

There will be a little Christmas this year, maybe at Easter or next Christmas we can sit down at the usual big family parties.

“Let’s get back to that, I don’t want to make a promise that I can’t keep,” he added on TV2.

The Prime Minister is very concerned, as the number of infected people identified in Hungary has increased by 22,589 in one week, and there are more than 180 deaths for the third day in a row. In fact, this figure is lower than the data from two weeks ago (30,122 infected identified).

However, it is certain that you will be vaccinated against the coronavirus. starts only after Christmas Eve, between the two parties for the population, as the national medical director said.

We eagerly await authorization from the European Medicines Agency

Cecília Müller said, adding that the national authority could grant a marketing authorization on that basis.

It is important that everyone can freely decide if they want to use the vaccination option. However, healthcare workers will be vaccinated first because they are at higher risk of infection, he said.

What is in effect now?

During a pandemic, many people make many announcements at many times, so it pays off chronologically.

The government is expected to brace itself for epidemiological relaxation, the index wrote. December 3 based on a prime minister’s Facebook post, and then on it for a few days, to be exact December 7 the head of government spoke: strict measures must be maintained. The current curfew will remain Until January 11, 2021, between 8 pm and 5 am (The latest restrictions went into effect on November 11). He had already said then that a decision would be made on December 21 on whether Christmas Eve would be an exception.

It is less necessary to talk about New Year’s Eve parties, parties and street dances, since we know that they are not played in advance, we can play fireworks in our own garden at most. The government decree on all this was published in the Hungarian Gazette No. 280 on Wednesday December 16.

1. Now you can hold private and family events with a maximum of ten participants. So that we can have Christmas without rest, if we don’t exceed this number, we invite fewer family members in Hungarian, which according to the expert who told Index, is not a bad idea either, that is, keeping the proper distance from our loved ones. Details are compiled here by index.

• The option may be that Viktor Orbán will raise the maximum number tomorrow

2. Under the restrictions, we are well aware that the curfew went into effect between 8 am and 5 pm, so family and friends must return home before 8 pm

• It may be an option for Viktor Orbán to lift the curfew, so he won’t have to get home by 8 p.m. If so, and if it will go into effect on December 24, 25 and 26.

It has become almost common for everyone from the age of six to wear a mask that constantly covers their nose and mouth, for example, in public transport, in public areas with a population of over 10,000 and in public places, except for sports activities and, or in green areas, in all rooms where public transport is expected, when shopping or working in a store, in shopping centers, except offices, sports facilities and commercial premises, in archives or for clients of the public administration standing area.

• The mask is one of the most important elements of defense, so suspension should not be an option, especially since it is not mandatory to wear it at family events, it is only recommended.

Total security can only be provided if we do not meet with our loved ones on Christmas this year, but if we decide to do so, it is worth following some principles, has already told Index Balázs Sárosi, head of the outpatient division of the Waberer Medical Center (WMC). The specialist has revealed that he will also meet his loved ones at Christmas, including his elderly mother, but they will all wear a mask at all times as they continue to pay attention to proper hand hygiene rules. He highlighted the importance of distance, which will be more difficult to achieve if the government’s decision to suspend the maximum number of people in private and family events is 10.

Celebration with the face of Janus

As Orbán pointed out in the aforementioned radio interview,

The Hungarian healthcare system has been slowly at its peak for 1 year, the burden on hospitals and the healthcare system is enormous.

If you ask me what the current state of health care is, I must say that the care system is in a heroic state. They do superhuman and superhuman jobs. We have very good doctors, very good nurses, for whom only one thing is important: to help us, to save us Hungarians.

– the prime minister summarized the situation on TV2.

In the economy, people are also suffering from a pandemic, everyone is waiting for vaccination to finally start and if it is slow, but go back to the pre-coronavirus period in people’s lives.

However, as the prime minister said, “It will be Christmas, the question is how many of us can be there right now.”

So we are waiting for the government’s decision before the most important holiday of Christianity.

(Cover image: Bruzák Noémi / MTI)