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'Too Early To Lift COVID Restrictions'-PM Orban

HUNGARY

Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Facebook page issues comment stating that it is too early to lift the country's COVID-19 restrictions.

  • Comes as Hungary continues to go its own way on vaccine deployment, buying up both Russia's Sputnik-V and China's Sinopharm vaccines, despite neither having EMA approval and not being purchased by the European Commission.
  • This has caused significant tension with Brussels, with the Commission angry that Hungary has jumped the gun on both vaccines, but Budapest sayin it cannot afford to wait for the cumbersome EU to purchase vaccines given the scale of the pandemic.

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