Mon Nov 22, 2021 – 9:55 pm EST
BUDAPEST, Hungary (LifeSiteNews) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said “everybody should be vaccinated” in an interview last week, ahead of a raft of new COVID-19 restrictions imposed by his government.
In an interview Friday with state-owned Kossuth Rádió, Orbán slammed the unvaccinated and said that “they will either get the jab or die,” Hungarian Today reported.
“We cannot avoid that everybody should be vaccinated at the end of the day,” he said. “In the end, even the anti-vaxxers will realize that they either get the jab or die.”
The PM also claimed that those who refuse the experimental COVID vaccine “pose a danger not only to themselves but to all others” and blamed vaccine hesitancy for an uptick in cases. “If everybody were inoculated, there would be no fourth wave or it would be just a small one,” Orbán said.
Though around 59 percent of Hungarians are “fully vaccinated” and 62 percent have had at least one jab, Hungary is facing a COVID-19 surge comparable to this time last year, before the vaccine rollout even began. The Eastern European country currently has more people being admitted to
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