This photo from Facebook page of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban shows him receiving a dose of China's Sinopharm vaccine against COVID-19 in Budapest, Hungary, on Feb. 28, 2021. (Viktor Orban Facebook via Xinhua)

Numerous world leaders have received COVID-19 vaccine.

They are unanimous in sending the information that receiving coronavirus vaccine is essential to protecting oneself and people around, and that the COVID-19 vaccine currently available is trustworthy.

BEIJING, March 2  -- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Sunday received an injection of China's Sinopharm vaccine against COVID-19.

"Vaccinated!" Orban wrote on Facebook, posting a photo of himself getting the shot, two days after Hungarian President Janos Ader got his shot.

The Hungarian leaders joined a long list of world leaders who received COVID-19 vaccine ahead of their people or at the early stage of their nationwide vaccination campaigns, a symbolic act of demystification and, more importantly, reassuring.

In pandemic-stricken Britain, Queen Elizabeth II, 94, and her 99-year-old husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, received COVID-19 vaccine in January. The monarch recently encouraged Britons to take the vaccine jab and to "think about other people."

"As far as I could make out it was quite harmless. It was very quick, and I've had lots of letters from people who have been very surprised by how easy it was to get the vaccine. And the jab -- it didn't hurt at all," she said during a video call with British health leaders.