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According to epidemiologists and virologists, the peak is expected in December. We are lagging behind the European average in terms of infection, and we are in the midst of deaths, said Cecília Müller, national medical director, at today’s briefing of operational staff. He also announced that he would write to retirees in the days to assess their need for coronavirus vaccination.
After repeating the already known statistics, Cecília Müller said that there is still a deceased young man who had a disease that classified him as high risk for the course of the disease. .
Hospital workloads have been reported to be significant, but less than before. According to the current opinion of the groups of epidemiologists and virologists, the peak is expected in December, after which the numbers may decrease, but we can expect a significant improvement after the arrival of the vaccine. In the field of infection, the Hungarian data is behind the European average, and we are in the middle of the number of deaths, said Cecília Müller.
Thursday statistics
The new coronavirus infection (Covid-19) was detected in 6,635 new Hungarian citizens, increasing the number of infected people identified in Hungary to 231,844. Most of the deaths were 182 elderly and chronic patients, bringing the number of deaths to 5,324. The number of recovered people is also growing steadily, currently 67,033 people, the number of actively infected people is 159,487. 20 percent of the actively infected, 23 percent of the dead and 25 percent of the recovered are from Budapest. 7,693 patients with coronavirus are treated in the hospital, 663 of them with ventilators.
To assess the need for the vaccine, the medical director will contact retirees in writing these days and ask them to return the completed response form. It would be very important to know the demand for the vaccine in the country, in addition to those involved in protection and chronic patients. It will also be possible to register at vakcinainfo.gov.hu.
Evaluating the data from the past 7 days, he said, 39,809 people were confirmed to be infected, which was not evenly distributed among the settlements. The most infected cities are Debrecen, Szeged, Miskolc, Kecskemét and Győr.
We are still on the rise in Europe, but the rise in Hungary is less dynamic, which is hopeful, according to the medical director, but the epidemic has not yet ceased, we have to follow known hygiene rules, he emphasized.
The rules for vacation time will be decided at the government meeting next week.
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