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Hungary on Saturday became the first EU country to start vaccinating its citizens against the coronavirus — disregarding the European Commission’s plan for a coordinated kick-off on December 27.
The country began inoculating health care workers with the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine, after enough doses to vaccinate 4,875 people arrived in Budapest on Saturday morning, according to Hungary’s vaccine information platform.
“We have started the inoculations among healthcare workers according to a plan defined earlier,” a government spokesperson told Reuters.
Hungary had earlier said it would start vaccinating health care workers from December 27, the date designated by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as the EU-wide rollout day for the vaccine.
On Tuesday, the government said some 307,000 Hungarians had already registered to receive the vaccine. A poll last week by Hungary’s Central Bureau of Statistics found that fewer than 15 percent of Hungarians were willing to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.
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