Doctors urge unvaccinated Hungarians to avoid weekend rallies

FILE PHOTO: Doses of the Sinopharm coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine are pictured in Budapest, Hungary February 26, 2021. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's main doctors' association on Friday urged Hungarians not immunised against COVID-19 to stay away from mass rallies this weekend amid a rise in cases across central Europe.

The region has the European Union's lowest vaccination rates, an unwelcome distinction in which both political and economic factors play a role, and deadlier variants of the virus are spreading there fast.