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Health workers will be able to get vaccinated against the coronavirus later this year, Ágnes Galgóczi said at the press conference of the operational staff on Thursday. The head of the epidemiology department at the National Center for Public Health explained that 2,882 new people had been diagnosed with the coronavirus infection as of Thursday, increasing the number of infected people in Hungary to 291,549. The hospital cares for 7,522 coronavirus patients, 573 of whom are on ventilators. Most of the deaths were 157 elderly and chronic patients, bringing the number of deaths to 7,538.
The youngest victim of the coronavirus yesterday was a 34-year-old man, whose underlying illnesses included pneumonia, hypertension, sepsis, heart disease and anemia.
The head of the NNK department continued to demand that everyone follow epidemiological rules, avoid crowded institutions, wear a mask and pay attention to disinfection.
There is more and more hopeful news about vaccines. The decision to approve the Pfizer vaccine could be made next week. We are preparing for the vaccination of healthcare workers to start in December
– said Ágnes Galgóczi, adding that the government also ordered another 11 and a half million vaccines, manufactured in the West. The NNK specialist then returned to the epidemiological data and detailed that more than 29,000 infections were recorded in week 50. 23 percent of the patients are between 40 and 49 years old, 17 percent are over 65 years old and 4 and a half percent are children under 14 years of age. He said the virus is present in 96 percent of settlements. The average age of the deceased is 75 years.
Answering questions from journalists, Ágnes Galgóczi said:
Hospitals are still banned from visiting, only a dying patient or a parent can be admitted.
On the question of how much time should elapse between vaccination against the coronavirus and flu vaccination, Ágnes Galgóczi stressed that each case is different and even different, and vaccinations are different.
Kristóf Gál, spokesperson for ORFK, said at a press conference of operational staff:
- the police had 221 “covert measures” in the last 24 hours,
- 311 people violated the curfew on the last day
- A total of 619 actions have been carried out for irregularities in leisure spaces,
- on Wednesday a IX. the district dining room was closed for 30 days, so the owner of the place and the three employees did not wear masks,
- The quarantine was verified on 16,079 sites,
- 4361 people carried out mobile checks.
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