Although nearly one million people have been vaccinated with China’s national vaccine, as Orbán did, Hungary continues to experience high infection and mortality rates, making it one of the countries with the highest mortality rates in the world. Although some experts have questioned the effectiveness of the national drug, the Hungarian government has so far continued to bet on the Chinese vaccine, and Prime Minister Orbán, in a phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the 29th, also hoped to continue to deepen cooperation with China on vaccines.
Ignoring the European Union, which is too slow to move, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced on February 24 that ” today is a very important day because Hungary started vaccinating with Chinese vaccines. The Chinese medical vaccine is the most trustworthy because the Chinese have known about this virus for the longest time. “
As the country with the highest mortality rate in the world, Hungary continues to bet on the Chinese vaccine to this day. As of 10:00 on April 30, Hungary had one of the highest mortality rates in the world, with 283 deaths per 100,000 people, based on the number of deaths from the disease as a percentage of the population.
None of these bad numbers prevented Orban from announcing the lifting of the ban on May 1 and insisting that the situation is very good, thanks in large part to China’s national vaccine. Hungary was the first EU country to approve the Chinese vaccine, which, along with Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, is known as the “Eastern vaccine.
Although nearly one million people have been vaccinated with the Chinese vaccine, as has Orbán, Hungary’s infection and mortality rates remain high, and although the epidemic’s chief doctor, Dr. Miller, said on the 12th that he would continue to import and vaccinate against the Chinese vaccine, questions have been raised from China to Hungary’s neighbor, Serbia, about the effectiveness of the Chinese medicine.
Doctor Garbozaga, for one, said on television, “So far, there are only a few hundred pages of reports on the Chinese vaccine and more than 20,000 pages on the Pfizer vaccine.” Immunology researchers at the Institute of Nuclear Energy Applications in Belgrade also confirmed that the national drug “takes more time to produce antibodies than other vaccines, i.e. two to three weeks after the second vaccination.
But the government and the state-run media have questioned the science, repeating only that “all vaccines are effective.” Orban accused those who “question their effectiveness” of being “anti-vaccine,” and those who doubted the vaccine were immediately labeled as anti-government. To justify itself, the government recently released a simple report on social media platforms comparing the effectiveness of several new crown vaccines, which provided only four data items before noting that the Russian Satellite V vaccine performed the best, followed by the Chinese National Vaccine, while the American Pfizer vaccine was the worst in almost all indicators, which showed that the number of deaths of Hungarians using the “Oriental Vaccine ” would result in fewer deaths among Hungarians.
Regarding the government’s defense of the Chinese vaccine with unscientific data, Hungarian experts pointed out that the report ignored and omitted multiple conditions and that the conclusions were inaccurate and misleading. However, the government ensured that no suspicious side effects were observed and also made lucky Orbán the topic of after-dinner conversation ” because he took a big risk buying Chinese and Russian vaccines without any necessary information”.
One million doses of Chinese vaccines will be delivered to Hungary in the next two days, and Chinese President Xi Jinping pointed out in a phone call with Orbán on April 29 that China and Hungary have carried out close cooperation especially on vaccines since the outbreak, and that China is willing to continue to strengthen its cooperation with Hungary on vaccines. Orbán said that the two countries have cooperated closely in the fight against the epidemic, especially on vaccines, and that China has provided timely support to Hungary, which has played an important role in controlling the epidemic for the Hungarian side, and hopes to continue to deepen cooperation with China on vaccines.
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