PM Orbán Receives Sinopharm Jab, Asks Hungarians to Get Vaccinated
Vaccination is the only possible protection against the coronavirus epidemic, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Sunday after receiving the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine.
Orbán said on Facebook that “we are being attacked by the third wave of the coronavirus epidemic which will be stronger than the previous two”. He asked all Hungarians to register and get vaccinated.
Orbán said it was “worth listening to those who know better”, adding that he was vaccinated after Chief Medical Officer Cecília Müller had decided that the members of the body in charge of epidemic prevention should also be vaccinated.
Chief Medical Officer: Surge in Covid Cases Calls for Urgent Vaccination
A surge in new coronavirus infections calls for urgent action to achieve herd immunity through wide-spread vaccination, Hungary’s chief medical officer has said.
Cecília Müller told public media on Saturday that the government wanted to vaccinate registered persons quickly and effectively. Altogether 2.5 million people have registered so far and they are all planned to be inoculated at least with the first shot of the vaccine approximately by Easter, she added.
All figures show an intensive upward trend in the coronavirus epidemic, with significant increases in the number of new infections and deaths, the medical officer said. The third wave of the epidemic is caused by new virus variants that are much more infectious than previous variants, she said.
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Zurich, December 19: Switzerland on Saturday announced its approval for using the vaccine against coronavirus (COVID-19), which is developed by Pfizer and partner BioNTech. Swiss drugs regulator Swissmedic announced its official website that Pfizer-BioNTech s COVID-19 vaccine has been authorised for use in Switzerland following a two-month rolling review. According to the data assessed by the Swiss Agency for Therapeutic Products, the level of protection afforded seven days after the second injection of the vaccine is over 90 percent. This represents the world s first authorisation in the ordinary procedure, Swissmedic said. So far, the United States, Britain, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain authorised Pfizer-BioNTech s COVID-19 vaccine.