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PM Orbán: Vaccination only way to stop virus, gradual reopening around the corner
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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said late on Wednesday that vaccination was the only way to stop the coronavirus epidemic, adding that restrictions could only slow down the pandemic.
Orbán told public news channel M1 that the third wave was triggered by the British virus variant which is more aggressive than previous variants and is spreading faster. As long as infections were isolated cases, lock-down and staying at home helped but the current mass infection cannot be stopped, only slowed down with the help of the lock-down and restrictions.
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“There is only one cure and there is only one way to stop it instead of simply slowing it down. It is the vaccines that can stop and kill the virus,” he said.
It follows that all efforts should be focused on vaccination, he added.
Orbán said that as of Wednesday, Hungary had enough vaccines for 2,011,029 people. Vaccines for 2,356,000 will be available by April 4 and for 4,121,000 by early May, he added. These volumes include both eastern and western vaccines, he said.
Orbán said he expected that enough vaccine will be available by late May or early June to inoculate 7 million people. He expressed hope that all registered persons will have received their first shots by late April or early May.
Two and a half million people will have received their first shot “sometime after Easter” which will open the way for gradual reopening, he said.
Schools will be reopened in the first stage, to be followed by shops with a new type of security measure put in place, which will involve allowing one customer per 10 square metre. This can be followed by the third and fourth stages of reopening, Orbán said but declined to reveal details. He said the high number of daily infections and the number of available vaccines were “too much in contrast with each other for the time being”.
He said that once the number of available vaccines increases, the number of infections will change and “enable a rational and sensible discussion about further steps of reopening”.
The European Commissioner for caged birds (Vera Jourova a.k.a. Dracula’s wife) must be extremely disappointed with the comments emanating from some of Hungary’s opposition politicians :
“NO EASTERN VACCINE ! NO EASTERN VACCINE ! NO EASTERN VACCINE ! SQUAWK ….”
She cannot understand why these mindless creatures deviated from the script that she had so carefully prepared : “RULE OF LAW ! RULE OF LAW ! RULE OF LAW ! SQUAWK …”
Oh well, Vera, just remember that some left-liberal parrots have more intelligence in their droppings than they do within those tiny heads !