Budapest. The Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban says he has had himself vaccinated against Covid-19.
The right-wing politician published pictures on his Facebook page on Sunday that show him being vaccinated. Another photo shows a package with Chinese inscription. Orban had previously announced that it would be injected with the Chinese vaccine Sinopharm.
So far, Hungary has given its citizens 680,000 vaccinations against Corona, most of them with products from Western manufacturers. But in the last 24 hours alone, according to official information from Sunday, 114,000 vaccinations were made – the vast majority of them with Sinopharm.
Like the Russian product Sputnik V, the vaccine is not approved in the EU. Hungary has ordered five million cans from Sinopharm and two million cans from Sputnik V. So far 550,000 cans have been received from Sinopharm and 145,600 from Sputnik V.
Orban hopes for a positive turnaround in the fight against the corona virus
In view of the supply bottlenecks for western vaccines, Orban hopes that the use of eastern products will turn the fight against the corona pandemic into a positive one. The latter, however, are not without controversy. The emergency approval procedure, which regulates an Orban’s ordinance, does not provide for any substantial review of the imported vaccines. Experts criticize that the manufacturer’s information, especially from the Chinese producer, is inadequate.
The government and experts also expect a third wave of the pandemic in Hungary. On Sunday, the authorities recorded 4469 proven new infections with the virus – on Sunday a week ago it was 2912. Since the pandemic began a year ago, almost 15,000 people have died in connection with a corona infection in the country with ten million inhabitants.
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