A month ago, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated that all people who had registered, would be vaccinated by Easter. Despite this, PMO Head Gergely Gulyás was much more cautious yesterday, speaking exclusively about vaccinating the elderly by the given time. It seems the government’s previously set goal proved to be too ambitious.
Slower than promised vaccination pace
If Hungary can begin using China’s Covid-19 vaccine then all 2.4 million people who have registered for a shot can be inoculated by Easter, PM Orbán said in his regular interview with public broadcaster Kossuth Radio almost exactly a month ago.
Sinopharm and Sputnik V: Heavy Debate Might Conclude with EU Authorization
The Chinese Sinopharm and Russian Sputnik V vaccines are increasingly receiving both positive and negative attention from the European Union. While the European Commission is supposedly planning to recognize vaccines with emergency authorization in the EU’s vaccine passport, an official from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has warned against doing so, citing a lack of documentation. The two
vaccines could play a stronger role in Europe, as they have helped Hungary reach a vaccination rate high above the EU average.
The European Commission is already working on a European digital vaccine passport which, unlike Hungarian vaccination certificates, contains the type of vaccine used for inoculation.
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As the coronavirus has become a rather unwelcome subject in our daily lives, vaccination statistics in Hungary are everyone’s interest. Based on the latest statistics provided by the European Union, Hungary’s main vaccine used for inoculation is that of Pfizer-BioNTech, used 665,873 times. China’s Sinopharm vaccine is second at 158,062 inoculations, but its available supply is almost four times that of Pfizer.
The Hungarian government has not shared a lot regarding the total amount of available vaccines, how many vaccines have arrived so far, what types of vaccines are being used the most, or how many vaccines are available in total.