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Hungary’s health authorities believed that the emerging coronavirus situation in the country would be under control after shipments of millions of doses of Russian and Chinese vaccines arrived, but the situation quickly spiraled out of control and doctors turned, in the third wave. . of the virus, forced to choose who will live and who will die from The patients.
The country is experiencing a disturbing paradox, according to a report by the British newspaper The Telegraph, after the authorities completed more than a million doses of vaccines, but failed to prevent the country from a third fatal wave of the epidemic after registering new records of positive. cases.
On Friday, authorities announced a new daily record of 9,011 positive tests, while 130 new deaths brought the death toll to 16,627 and the number of patients in hospitals rose by 389 to 8,718.
And the country has become the third highest death rate from the Corona virus in the world, and the fourth in the world in terms of deaths per capita, according to John Hopkins University.
Although Hungary called on the Russian vaccine, Sputnik and the Chinese Sinopharma vaccine to raise the vaccination rate to 13.2 doses per 100 people, which is much better than the average of 9.1 in the rest of the European Union, this failed to stop the increase in positive cases.
The newspaper reported that the situation has deteriorated to the point where doctors are forced to choose who has a better chance of survival than patients.
“We are increasingly faced with a situation where we have to decide to end life support for a patient, which means turning off the machine, to help another patient who may have a better chance of survival,” local media cited a doctor. saying.
The mayor of Budapest sounded the alarm when she indicated that the city’s subway may have to stop due to the large increase in cases among workers.
Cecilia Muller, the chief physician in Hungary, attributed the rapid increase in cases despite vaccination to the mutated strain that appeared in Britain and spread to other European countries.
Other Central European countries, such as the Czech Republic and Slovakia, are experiencing an increase in cases of the new strain.
The Czech Republic and Slovakia had also requested shipments of the “Sputnik-V” vaccine from Russia.
An official of a European agency had compared the Russian vaccine “Sputenbeck-V”, administered by some European countries, with a game of “Russian Roulette”.
In Poland, where 40 percent of new cases are infected with the British strain, the daily rate of infection topped 21,000 cases on Friday.
These countries’ problems increased as the British-Swedish company AstraZeneca postponed delivery of its vaccine shipments to the European Union.
The company had previously warned that it was facing shortages in the European supply chain due to lower production.
The Corona virus is reported to have claimed more than 2.64 million lives worldwide so far.
