"There is something great in the fact that someone starting from Kisújszállás becomes the most well-known Hungarian alive today," Viktor Orbán said of Katalin Karikó, whom he met on Thursday at the Karmelita monastery.
He achieves world fame with an achievement that can save millions of lives, many millions of people's lives. I think this is a big thing, I also felt that I have a reason to be proud of it, Viktor Orbán said in Kossuth Rádió's Good Morning, Hungary program. On Thursday morning, the Prime Minister received Katalin Karikó, research biologist, biochemist, and patentee of synthetic mRNA-based vaccine technology, at the Karmelita Monastery. The Prime Minister posted about their meeting on Facebook on Friday.
Regarding their conversation the Prime Minister said that Katalin Karikó knows everything about the epidemic and the vaccination necessary to prevent it.
"I felt that I was safe because there is a Hungarian person who, if there is anything wrong, is available, can be called and can give us advice on what to do," said the Prime Minister.
He emphasized that in the person of the biochemist, he met a "friendly, world-famous Hungarian professor who is proud of her own roots and her Hungarianness".
Source: Origo.hu
