By the end of this week, the number of people vaccinated against coronavirus may well have exceeded 800,000, István György, a state secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office, said on Tuesday
Forrás: hungarytoday.hu, 18 February 2021 - Tamás Vaski -
Over the past 24 hours, another 2,853 people in Hungary caught the coronavirus, reports koronavirus.gov.hu. The Chief Medical Officer announced the beginning of the third wave of the coronavirus in Hungary at today’s coronavirus press conference.
Hungary has become self-sufficient in manufacturing medical-grade masks that protect against the coronavirus, Finance Minister Mihály Varga said at the launch of a production line turning out one million masks a day at the plant of Vajda Papír in Dunaföldvár.
Fully 97 Covid patients, generally elderly and suffering from an underlying illness, died over the past 24 hours, while 1,862 new infections were officially registered, bringing the total number of infected to 381,875, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Thursday.
The first shipment of the Russian coronavirus vaccine has arrived in Hungary, the chief medical officer said on Tuesday afternoon, adding that the 40,000 doses were enough to inoculate 20,000 people.