The Prime Minister started the day with important announcements.

Coronavirus – the second year

More than a year has passed since the Chinese authorities informed the WHO of the emergence of a new, rapidly spreading virus. Since then, there has hardly been a person in the world who has not heard the term Covid-19, and more and more people are mourning a family member or friend with whom the new disease ended as stocks collapsed in weeks and weeks. our entire lives were rewritten. by the epidemic. By now, the vaccines have been completed, which in turn raises not only hope, but again many questions, while not only stopping the virus, but also threatening another mutation. You will find the details of this fight in our series of articles.

It’s not about when we get to the top, but how fast we start there.

– Viktor Orbán said to Kossuth Radio Good morning, Hungary! in your program. So far, that’s why I wouldn’t even go into predictions, he said, that 275 people died yesterday, 11,823 people are in the hospital and 1,480 people are being held on a ventilator.

Everyone is very tired too, but the reserves, according to him, are in good shape: there are 10,343 spare beds and 1,693 fans available, which is about half the capacity. It also employs 500 volunteers and 1,200 health students. There was no need to touch the final reserve, these are the travelers, Orbán said.

We are living through the hardest weeks of the epidemic, this is called the third wave, which is because the British mutant has become dominant, displacing the previous type of virus, said the prime minister. It can infect three times more people than before, and it also puts young people at higher risk. That is why young people are being asked to pay attention to the virus for themselves, as more and more people are hospitalized in their circles.

As for lifting the restrictions, he said vaccination was the number one defense against the virus. Hungary could administer multiple of the current ones, but there is not enough vaccine, the usual mantra was said. The EU summit ended last night, everyone is in trouble, “but if he had seen the faces of others compared to us”, he would have been surprised, since whoever relies solely on vaccines in Brussels is half as vaccinated as us . Orbán said.

In May, we will have at least as many eastern vaccines as western ones that lack it may not have a free summer.

We will have a free summer

He declared.

Regarding the AstraZeneca vaccines found in Italy, he said prime ministers had given Brussels negotiating positions with pharmaceutical manufacturers. We made the wrong decision, everyone should have negotiated for themselves. This was forbidden – the presenter Katalin Nagy interrupted, and Orbán replied that “there was no rifle barrel pressed against my forehead.” The point of view of Brussels was the purchase price, although the money did not fall from the sky, but the time would have been important. The EU has squeezed out the vaccine, but if it is not cheap, it should be more expensive, the prime minister said.

We have reviewed the vaccination situation, 1,803,533 people have been vaccinated, soon there will be 600,000 (now 594,000) people vaccinated for the second time. There are 250,000 Russian vaccines, but they are still being tested, which can sometimes take several weeks. I urge Cecilia Müller, but she will not let go of me, which is correct, she said. In addition, there are 517,000 vaccines in stock, awaiting the second vaccination. 71 percent of those over 65 are vaccinated.

There can be no immediate reopening, he said. In the opinion of epidemiologists, as long as the number of infections is so high, there will be no opening.

Regarding the opening hours of the stores, he said that we will change to a limitation based on square meters, that is, a store can have 1 person for every 10 square meters at a time. There will surely be queues in front of the stores, so they are negotiating to extend the curfew until 10pm or possibly 11pm. If we extend the opening hours of the stores until 9 pm, we could be out until 10 pm. Details will be discussed by operational staff, in the afternoon, no later than tomorrow morning there will be rules.

There is a fight for hairdressers, but epidemiologists resist, he said.

Regarding pregnant women, he said experts say that Pfizer and Moderna should vaccinate pregnant women, so he asks them to register.

Regarding education, he said that if we want children to return to schools, teachers and school personnel must be vaccinated. That means there are 102,000 registered school workers, of whom 20,000 are vaccinated. We can vaccinate the rest before April 10, we have to wait a bit for it to work, so there is a realistic chance that kindergartens, primary and secondary schools could open on April 19, he said, adding that VET workers are not included in these numbers.

We trust our GPs, that is why we have involved them in the vaccination process, but if there are more vaccines in the country, there will be more hospital vaccines. Everyone is tired, frustrated, they want to get rid of it, but believe me, I stay with the government, said Orbán, who said that you should pay attention to what he or Cecília Müller says, who will provide credible information about the situation on the right. times.

Regarding the vaccine registration website, he said that hundreds of thousands, millions of databases are managed, so a mistake cannot be avoided. All benevolent people are working on this, they don’t want to hurt each other, they are also tired, so not only do we have to be patient with each other, we also need good temperament, he asked.

Is the light at the end of the tunnel visible? – The question is, by the time he reiterated that we would have a summer off, but there would be events that you could only go to with a vaccine ID. Life in Hungary will be free before most or even all EU countries; According to Orbán, we have many possibilities to do so.

Earlier, Gergely Gulyás, the minister in charge of the Prime Minister’s Office, stated in Government Info on Thursday that according to the government’s decision, schools will open in a week, reaching 2.5 million vaccinated, which now means April 12 or April 19 at the earliest. .

Government information: after 2.5 million vaccinations, schools will open and teachers will also be vaccinated

Two government meetings were also held on Wednesday, the results of which were presented by government spokeswoman Alexandra Szentkirályi and Minister Gergely Gulyás in government briefing on Thursday. The latter reiterated that the health system will be able to bear the increased burden. The government knows of 650,000 retirees who have not yet registered for vaccination, they are addressed separately.


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