Prime Minister Viktor Orbán made a Facebook post sharing how many government officials in a specific meeting received which type of vaccine. According to him, those present were all vaccinated, most with the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine.
In his Wednesday Facebook post, Viktor Orbán shared a photo of him at a government meeting, where all 15 participants were vaccinated.
According to the prime minister, eight officials were vaccinated with Sinopharm, four with Sputnik V, and three with Pfizer. He concluded his post by inviting everyone to be vaccinated.
So far it has been confirmed that the prime minister was vaccinated with the Chinese vaccine, while Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office Gergely Gulyás and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó were vaccinated with the Russian vaccine.
Travel opportunities for vaccinated Hungarians are appearing increasingly complicated, not only because of the system developed around Hungary’s immunity certificates, but because of other countries’ conditions for entry. In the government’s most recent press conference, Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office Gergely Gulyás addressed many of these concerns.
Austria has announced that it is allowing quarantine-free travel to a number of countries, among them Hungary, where there are no longer a high number of people infected with the coronavirus. However, it is allegedly only accepting immunized individuals who were vaccinated with vaccines approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) or the World Health Organization (WHO).
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PMO Head: Hungary to Have 5 Million Vaccinated by End of May
Five million Hungarians are expected to have received at least their first jab on the week after the Pentecost holiday, the last week of May, the prime minister’s chief of staff said on Thursday.
“With this in sight, the cabinet will at its meeting next week discuss easing further pandemic-related restrictions,” Gergely Gulyás told his regular weekly press briefing held online.
Gulyás said that under the government’s plan, Hungarian citizens living abroad will also be entitled to receive a Hungarian immunity certificate.
Hungarian citizens inoculated against Covid-19 in any member state of the European Union, NATO or the OECD, and in Russia or China can apply to obtain a Hungarian immunity certificate after submitting a certificate of their inoculation to Hungarian authorities, he said.
Anyone with an issue involving their Hungarian immunity card should inform a government office, where they can request their certificates to be produced and mailed to them, Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office Gergely Gulyás announced.
People vaccinated in Hungary who do not have a Hungarian passport or an identity card, primarily foreign citizens, have faced a number of difficulties in acquiring their immunity certificates. The main issue is that without the number of such documents, the National eHealth Infrastructure (EESZT) database cannot register these individuals for immunity cards.
Foreign citizens living in Hungary cannot access their immunity certificates following vaccination, since they are required to either have a Hungarian identity card or passport, reports Azonnali. Government offices have been directing complaints to the doctors working at vaccination points, since they were supposed to provide an identifying number to vaccinated foreigners, which was not [