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BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian journalists accused the government on Wednesday of putting lives at risk by barring the media from covering the full extent of what is now the world\u2019s deadliest COVID-19 outbreak.<\/p>

FILE PHOTO: Family doctor Csaba Denes gives a dose of the Sinopharm coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine to a patient, in Budapest, Hungary February 26, 2021. REUTERS\/Bernadett Szabo\/File Photo<\/figcaption>

In an open letter published by most of the country\u2019s independent news outlets, reporters said they had been blocked from hospitals and barred from speaking to medics, making it impossible to alert the public to the crisis.<\/p>\n

Hungary, with 10 million people, reported 302 deaths on Tuesday, its highest since the start of the pandemic, and now has the highest weekly toll per capita in the world. Doctors speaking on condition of anonymity have told Reuters that hospitals are being overrun.<\/p>\n

Hungary\u2019s nationalist government denies there is a capacity crisis, and state-run media have depicted the situation in hospitals as under control. The government says it aims to reopen the economy by bringing in vaccines, including shots from Russia and China yet to be approved by the EU.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoctors and nurses are not free to talk to the public, while journalists are not allowed in hospitals, so we cannot assess what happens there,\u201d read the letter published in 28 independent newspapers, websites and other outlets.<\/p>\n

The Council of Europe said on Tuesday bit.ly\/3wdSwh2 that Hungarian media workers faced increasing problems covering the pandemic. The government dismissed those remarks as “based on presumptions and allegations”.<\/p>\n

Government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said there would be no laxer rules, and accused \u201cleft-wing portals\u201d of spreading \u201cfake news\u201d to embarrass the country\u2019s health care system.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must use hospitals to heal, not shoot footage,\u201d Kovacs wrote on Facebook on Wednesday. \u201cHungarian doctors and nurses perform exceptionally. Let them work!\u201d<\/p>\n

Activists and international bodies have accused Prime Minister Viktor Orban\u2019s government of cracking down on free media since it took power in 2010. The government denies interfering with what it calls a free press.<\/p>\n

Doctors have also raised the alarm that news coverage which fails to show the extent of the crisis could make it worse.<\/p>\n

\u201cI warn all political forces and their media that one-sided information, censorship delays recognising the faults of health care, which could cost lives,\u201d Janos Szijjarto, chairman of the doctors\u2019 association from Gyor, Western Hungary, wrote on Facebook earlier this month.<\/p>\n

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