Hungary emerges as an EU vaccination star amid surging cases
3 years, 9 months ago

Hungary emerges as an EU vaccination star amid surging cases

Associated Press  

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary has emerged as a European Union leader in COVID-19 vaccinations thanks to a strategy that sought shots from Russia and China as well as from inside the bloc, spurring increasing trust in jabs from eastern nations. “There’s nothing uglier or more awful than death by suffocation.” Right-wing populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban broke with the EU’s common procurement program to purchase millions of doses from Russia and China that were not approved by the EU’s medicines regulator. In February, the country became the first in the EU to begin using China’s Sinopharm and Russia’s Sputnik V vaccines, even as polling showed that public trust in non-EU approved vaccines was low. Dr. Bela Merkely, the rector of Semmelweis Medical University in Budapest, told the AP that Hungary’s exceptional performance in vaccinations can be attributed to its purchase of the Russian and Chinese vaccines. Merkely expects Hungary’s new lockdown restrictions and increasing vaccination rate to produce results within three to four weeks and the latest surge to be under control by mid-May.

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WHO Europe warns of Covid rise in east, flags lagging vaccination rates
2 years, 10 months ago

WHO Europe warns of Covid rise in east, flags lagging vaccination rates

India Today  

The head of the World Health Organization’s Europe office said Tuesday that health officials are turning their attention to growing rates of COVID-19 infection in Eastern Europe, where six countries — including Russia and Ukraine — have seen a doubling in case counts over the last two weeks. Dr. Hans Kluge said the 53-country region, which stretches to former Soviet …

Austria to Make Covid Vaccines Compulsory for Adults from February, Says Chancellor
2 years, 11 months ago

Austria to Make Covid Vaccines Compulsory for Adults from February, Says Chancellor

News 18  

Austria will become the first European country to make Covid-19 vaccination compulsory for adults in February, Chancellor Karl Nehammer said Sunday, acknowledging that it was a “sensitive topic”. Since plans for compulsory jabs were first announced last year, Austria has seen impassioned debate both in parliament and beyond on the issue. Nehammer acknowledged the decision covered “a totally sensitive topic” …

Vaccine skeptics in Eastern Europe are having a change of heart
3 years ago

Vaccine skeptics in Eastern Europe are having a change of heart

LA Times  

A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine in Sarajevo, Bosnia, earlier this week. More significantly, the 52-year-old self-employed cleaning woman has joined the global community of vaccine believers after months of “being very susceptible” to what she now describes as “the most ridiculous theories.” She told the Associated Press that some of those that she heard were “that the coronavirus does …

Greece to make Covid vaccinations mandatory for over-60s
3 years, 1 month ago

Greece to make Covid vaccinations mandatory for over-60s

The Independent  

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Europe’s Covid-19 surge presents hard choices as winter approaches
3 years, 1 month ago

Europe’s Covid-19 surge presents hard choices as winter approaches

Live Mint  

As Covid-19 infections and deaths in the European Union eclipse those in the U.S., the region is confronting an ugly reality: Defeating the Delta variant is proving harder than a virus-weary continent had hoped. German doctors and health experts say the rising number of hospital patients mainly come from the country’s vaccine holdouts—Germany has a relatively high share of older …

Europe is learning a crucial lesson – vaccines work, but they alone won’t stop Covid now
3 years, 1 month ago

Europe is learning a crucial lesson – vaccines work, but they alone won’t stop Covid now

CNN  

London CNN — As Western Europe’s vaccination rollout gained strength in the early part of 2021, many of the region’s leaders touted the shots as their immediate route out of the pandemic. “What we have now is an epidemic of the unvaccinated – about 10% of our population over 12 is unvaccinated, and we’re seeing an epidemic in those people, …

Czechs, Slovaks target unvaccinated with new restrictions
3 years, 1 month ago

Czechs, Slovaks target unvaccinated with new restrictions

Associated Press  

PRAGUE — The Czech and Slovak governments on Thursday approved new coronavirus restrictions that will come into effect next week and specifically target unvaccinated people amid a record surge of infections in both neighboring countries. Czech Health Minister Adam Vojtech said most unvaccinated people will no longer be allowed to show negative coronavirus tests in order to attend public events, …

Not out of the woods: COVID cases rising in Western Europe
3 years, 1 month ago

Not out of the woods: COVID cases rising in Western Europe

Associated Press  

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Santa won’t be getting his traditional welcome in the Dutch city of Utrecht this year. Nearly two years into a global health crisis that has killed more than 5 million people, infections are again sweeping across parts of Western Europe, a region with relatively high vaccination rates and good health care systems but where lockdown measures …

Spiraling infections grip low-vaccination parts of Europe
3 years, 2 months ago

Spiraling infections grip low-vaccination parts of Europe

The Independent  

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Hungary Will Receive Technology to Produce Sputnik V Covid-19 Vaccine: Foreign Minister
3 years, 2 months ago

Hungary Will Receive Technology to Produce Sputnik V Covid-19 Vaccine: Foreign Minister

News 18  

Hungary will receive technology this year to produce Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine at a Hungarian plant currently under construction, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in Moscow on Thursday according to a foreign ministry statement. The Sputnik V vaccine, widely used in Russia and approved for use in more than 70 countries, is still undergoing a review by the World …

Two Europes: Low vaccine rates in east overwhelm ICUs
3 years, 3 months ago

Two Europes: Low vaccine rates in east overwhelm ICUs

Associated Press  

BUCHAREST, Romania — In a packed intensive care unit for coronavirus patients in Romania’s capital, Bucharest, 55-year-old Adrian Pica sits on his bed receiving supplementary oxygen to help him breathe. In Norway, where about 70% of the population has been vaccinated, authorities on Saturday scrapped restrictions that Prime Minister Erna Holberg called “the strictest measures in peacetime.” Nordic neighbor Denmark …

Low vaccine rates in east Europe overwhelm ICUs amid surge of delta variant cases
3 years, 3 months ago

Low vaccine rates in east Europe overwhelm ICUs amid surge of delta variant cases

Firstpost  

Bulgaria and Romania are EU’s two least-vaccinated nations, with just 22 percent and 33 percent of their adult populations fully inoculated while 72 percent adults in the 27-nation European Union have been fully vaccinated Bucharest, Romania: In a packed intensive care unit for coronavirus patients in Romania’s capital, Bucharest, 55-year-old Adrian Pica sits on his bed receiving supplementary oxygen to …

22 million Covid vaccines administered; NL in EU top 10
3 years, 4 months ago

22 million Covid vaccines administered; NL in EU top 10

NL Times  

The 22 millionth coronavirus jab will be administered on Thursday, caretaker Minister of Public Health Hugo de Jonger reported on Twitter. Currently, 84.3 percent of adults in the Netherlands have had at least one coronavirus jab, according to data from the ECDC, the European version of the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment. In France, Norway, Portugal, Malta, …

As vaccinations and travel pick up, Europe says not all COVID-19 shots are equal
3 years, 5 months ago

As vaccinations and travel pick up, Europe says not all COVID-19 shots are equal

LA Times  

After Dr. Ifeanyi Nsofor and his wife received two doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria, they assumed they would be free to travel this summer to a European destination of their choice. “This will just give room to all kinds of conspiracy theories that the vaccines we’re getting in Africa are not as good as the ones they have …

Hungary has approved more vaccines than any other country – but vaccine diplomacy is at play
3 years, 7 months ago

Hungary has approved more vaccines than any other country – but vaccine diplomacy is at play

ABC  

Australia has approved two vaccines so far, but in the city of Budapest, one Australian and his family managed to collect five different jabs between them. Key points: Russia's Sputnik V has an efficacy of 91.6 per cent, but it's been controversial in Europe Australians getting vaccinated abroad want to see their jabs recognised here Epidemiologists urge for science to …

Europe dares to reopen as 200 millionth vaccine dose delivered
3 years, 7 months ago

Europe dares to reopen as 200 millionth vaccine dose delivered

India Today  

As its vaccination drive reaches a third of adults and COVID-19 infections ease, Europe is starting to reopen cities and beaches, raising hopes that this summer's holiday season can be saved before it is too late. Exhilarated Spaniards chanting "freedom" danced in the streets as a COVID-19 curfew ended in most of the country at the weekend, while Greece reopened …

EU report takes aim at Russia over vaccine fake news
3 years, 8 months ago

EU report takes aim at Russia over vaccine fake news

Associated Press  

BRUSSELS — Russia has launched a major campaign using ministries, companies and pro-Kremlin media to promote the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine and spread fake news that the West and the European Union are trying to undermine the shot, an EU agency said in a report Wednesday. “The Russian campaign to promote the Sputnik V vaccine has accelerated and developed into …

Europe lines up more shots, hoping to beat back virus surge
3 years, 8 months ago

Europe lines up more shots, hoping to beat back virus surge

Associated Press  

BERLIN — Slow out of the gate, the European Union has ramped up its COVID-19 vaccination efforts, with the distribution of the Johnson & Johnson one-shot product this week adding to the momentum amid doggedly high infection rates on the continent. “In the first quarter of 2021 only 10% of Germans were able to receive a first vaccination due to …

WHO says Europe’s vaccine rollout ‘unacceptably slow’ amid ‘worrying’ surge
3 years, 9 months ago

WHO says Europe’s vaccine rollout ‘unacceptably slow’ amid ‘worrying’ surge

CNN  

London CNN — The rollout of vaccines in Europe is “unacceptably slow,” the World Health Organization said Wednesday, delivering a damning evaluation on the region’s Covid response, amid a “worrying” surge in infections. Let me be clear: we must speed up the process by ramping up manufacturing, reducing barriers to administering vaccines, and using every single vial we have in …

Hungary records the deadliest day of the pandemic, despite its leading vaccine rollout
3 years, 9 months ago

Hungary records the deadliest day of the pandemic, despite its leading vaccine rollout

CNN  

CNN — Hungary has recorded its deadliest day of the pandemic so far, struggling to contain the latest surge of new coronavirus cases even as its vaccine rollout speeds up. The record toll came just days after Prime Minister Viktor Orban said he had no doubt Hungary would have a “free summer” thanks to the number of vaccine doses it …

Not Enough Vaccine Doses In Europe To Stop A 3rd Wave, German Health Minister Says
3 years, 9 months ago

Not Enough Vaccine Doses In Europe To Stop A 3rd Wave, German Health Minister Says

NPR  

Not Enough Vaccine Doses In Europe To Stop A 3rd Wave, German Health Minister Says Enlarge this image toggle caption Marijan Murat/Pool/AFP via Getty Images Marijan Murat/Pool/AFP via Getty Images German Health Minister Jens Spahn is telling Germans to diligently follow coronavirus safety rules, warning that vaccines won't arrive quickly enough to prevent a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. …

Major European nations suspend use of AstraZeneca vaccine
3 years, 9 months ago

Major European nations suspend use of AstraZeneca vaccine

Associated Press  

BERLIN — A cascading number of European countries — including Germany, France, Italy and Spain — suspended use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine Monday over reports of dangerous blood clots in some recipients, though the company and international regulators say there is no evidence the shot is to blame. The World Health Organization and the EU’s European Medicines Agency have also …

Italy to become first EU nation to produce Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine
3 years, 10 months ago

Italy to become first EU nation to produce Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine

Firstpost  

Milan: Russia has signed a deal to produce its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in Italy, the first contract in the European Union, the Italian Russian Chamber of Commerce announced Tuesday. Sputnik V has not yet been approved for use in the EU, but the body’s regulator, the European Medicines Agency, or EMA, started a rolling review of the vaccine last …

Doses of AstraZeneca’s covid-19 vaccine pile up in Europe amid govt restrictions
3 years, 10 months ago

Doses of AstraZeneca’s covid-19 vaccine pile up in Europe amid govt restrictions

Live Mint  

Europe’s reluctance to distribute millions of doses of AstraZeneca PLC’s Covid-19 vaccine is coming under pressure after the French government authorized use of the shot for some older people. France’s move was a sharp departure from a month ago when President Emmanuel Macron told reporters that the vaccine was quasi ineffective for people older than 65, without providing evidence to …

Hungary tightens pandemic restrictions amid rising deaths
3 years, 10 months ago

Hungary tightens pandemic restrictions amid rising deaths

The Independent  

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Tactical shift: Europe seeks vaccine ‘overdrive’ to catch up
3 years, 10 months ago

Tactical shift: Europe seeks vaccine ‘overdrive’ to catch up

Associated Press  

BERLIN — Slow off the blocks in the race to immunize its citizens against COVID-19, Germany faces an unfamiliar problem: a glut of vaccines and not enough arms to inject them into. The decision comes as Germany’s stockpile of AstraZeneca vaccine doses looked set to top 2 million this week due to the restrictions it had imposed, even as many …

Chinese vaccines sweep much of the world, despite concerns
3 years, 10 months ago

Chinese vaccines sweep much of the world, despite concerns

Associated Press  

TAIPEI, Taiwan — The plane laden with vaccines had just rolled to a stop at Santiago’s airport in late January, and Chile’s president, Sebastián Piñera, was beaming. China’s vaccine diplomacy campaign has been a surprising success: It has pledged roughly half a billion doses of its vaccines to more than 45 countries, according to a country-by-country tally by The Associated …

Slovakia signs deal to acquire 2 million doses of Sputnik V
3 years, 10 months ago

Slovakia signs deal to acquire 2 million doses of Sputnik V

Associated Press  

PRAGUE — Slovakia signed a deal to acquire 2 million doses of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, Prime Minister Igor Matovic said Monday. The seven-day rolling average of daily deaths didn’t rise or increase over the past two weeks, remaining at 1.79 deaths per 100,000 people since Feb. 14 till Sunday, according to Johns Hopkins University. With Western vaccines rolling …

Hungary rolls out China’s Sinopharm jab amid lagging trust
3 years, 10 months ago

Hungary rolls out China’s Sinopharm jab amid lagging trust

Associated Press  

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Doctors in Hungary on Wednesday began administering a COVID-19 vaccine developed in China, making the country the first European Union nation to use a Chinese jab as officials aim to bolster trust in its safety and effectiveness. “I ask for all fears to be dispelled about the Chinese and Russian vaccines, because more than 30 million people …

Hungary Receives First Shipment of China's Sinopharm Covid-19 Vaccine
3 years, 10 months ago

Hungary Receives First Shipment of China's Sinopharm Covid-19 Vaccine

News 18  

A shipment of COVID-19 vaccines produced in China arrived in Hungary on Tuesday, making it the first of the European Union’s 27 nations to receive a Chinese vaccine. “With this vaccine, five different types are now available in Hungary so that we may get as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible,” Galgoczy said, adding that vaccine shots won’t begin …

Hungary is First EU Nation to Get Covid-19 Vaccine from China's Sinopharm
3 years, 10 months ago

Hungary is First EU Nation to Get Covid-19 Vaccine from China's Sinopharm

News 18  

A shipment of a COVID-19 vaccine produced in China arrived in Hungary on Tuesday morning, making the country the first in the European Union to receive a Chinese vaccine. Hungary expects to receive 5 million total doses of the Sinopharm vaccine over the next four months. The Sinopharm vaccine, which the developer says is nearly 80% effective, is already in …

Chinese vaccine will pull Hungary ahead of EU, PM says
3 years, 10 months ago

Chinese vaccine will pull Hungary ahead of EU, PM says

Associated Press  

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary will be able to vaccinate millions more people against the coronavirus by the end of May than other European countries with similarly sized populations due to its plans to use a vaccine made in China, the Hungarian prime minister predicted in a radio interview Friday. “If we start using the Chinese vaccine, which will happen soon, …

Czech PM views Serbia’s mass vaccination campaign
3 years, 10 months ago

Czech PM views Serbia’s mass vaccination campaign

Associated Press  

BELGRADE, Serbia — The Czech Republic’s prime minister visited Serbia on Wednesday to find out more about the Balkan nation’s mass inoculation program with Chinese and Russian vaccines that have not yet been approved by the European Union’s drug regulator. Czech leader Andrej Babis has been seeking vaccines outside the EU’s common program after deliveries from EU-approved Western drug companies …

Serbia leader says nation among top in Europe in vaccination
3 years, 11 months ago

Serbia leader says nation among top in Europe in vaccination

The Independent  

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Study: Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine appears safe, effective
3 years, 11 months ago

Study: Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine appears safe, effective

Associated Press  

MOSCOW — Russian scientists say the country’s Sputnik V vaccine appears safe and effective against COVID-19, according to early results of an advanced study published Tuesday in a British medical journal. Scientists not linked to the research acknowledged that the speed at which the vaccine was made and rolled out had brought criticism of the Russian effort’s “unseemly haste, corner …

Hungary first in EU to approve Chinese COVID-19 vaccine
3 years, 11 months ago

Hungary first in EU to approve Chinese COVID-19 vaccine

Associated Press  

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary’s medicine and food safety regulator on Friday approved China’s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, making it the first country in the European Union to do so. Any vaccine that has been administered to at least one million people worldwide may now be approved for use in Hungary — without being assessed by the country’s medicines …

Irked by slow EU rollout, Hungary approves Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus
3 years, 11 months ago

Irked by slow EU rollout, Hungary approves Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus

Firstpost  

Budapest: Hungarian authorities have approved a Russian coronavirus vaccine, moving the country closer to becoming the first in the European Union to administer the shot to its population. The vaccine, Sputnik V, received a six-month authorisation Wednesday from Hungary’s National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition, institute director Matyas Szentivanyi told public television. Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, has been critical …

EU nations eagerly kick off mass Covid-19 vaccinations
4 years ago

EU nations eagerly kick off mass Covid-19 vaccinations

Hindustan Times  

European Union nations kicked off a coordinated effort on Sunday to give COVID-19 vaccinations to the most vulnerable among the bloc’s nearly 450 million people, marking a moment of hope in the continent’s battle against the worst public health crisis in a century. “It didn’t hurt at all,” said Mihaela Anghel, a nurse at the Matei Bals Institute in Bucharest …

‘Believe in science': EU kicks off COVID-19 vaccine campaign
4 years ago

‘Believe in science': EU kicks off COVID-19 vaccine campaign

Associated Press  

ROME — Doctors, nurses and the elderly rolled up their sleeves across the European Union to receive the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine Sunday in a symbolic show of unity and moment of hope for a continent confronting its worst health care crisis in a century. “Today I’m here as a citizen, but most of all as a nurse, …

Germany, Hungary give 1st vaccine shots ahead of EU rollout
4 years ago

Germany, Hungary give 1st vaccine shots ahead of EU rollout

Associated Press  

FRANKFURT, Germany — Germany, Hungary and Slovakia began giving out their first coronavirus vaccine shots on Saturday only hours after receiving their first shipments, upsetting the European Union’s plans for a coordinated rollout Sunday across the bloc’s 27 nations. He was among those immunized but added, “I also understand the concerns.” In Hungary, health care workers were vaccinated at the …

‘Window of hope’: Europe prepares to launch Covid-19 vaccinations
4 years ago

‘Window of hope’: Europe prepares to launch Covid-19 vaccinations

Hindustan Times  

Hungary stole a march on its fellow EU nations as it began vaccinating its people against Covid-19 on Saturday, a day ahead of rollouts in several other countries including France, Germany and Spain as the pandemic surges across the continent. Boxes of Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine are unloaded after arriving at an undisclosed location in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany, Mass vaccination …

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