To date, 2,461 healthcare workers have been vaccinated against the coronavirus and the government will extend free screening to workers in vocational training institutions.

Coronavirus: the second wave, the second closure

Later than expected by many, but in mid-November, the Hungarian government also decided to try to curb the second wave of the coronavirus epidemic by introducing restrictions. At the time of the decision, 5,000 new infections a day had been identified and the number of deaths from the virus mostly ranged from 50 to 100 in 24 hours. The first step is a partial closure, but how effective it is is questionable. Follow our news!

School buildings will be cleaned at the end of the winter holidays on January 4, said Zoltán Maruzsa, secretary of state for Public Education at the Ministry of Human Resources (Emmi), at a press conference at the operating court on Tuesday. In the kindergartens that were also open last week or were infected, the army is also helping with the clean-up. According to Maruzsa, each month 300,000 liters of disinfectant are distributed to all institutions.

Free testing of those working in public education institutions will continue in January

The Secretary of State continued. It is not mandatory, but it is possible to book an appointment and pre-register. Details about this can be found in the Covid-19 menu item on the Oktatas.hu website. By Tuesday morning, according to Maruzsa, 7,400 people had registered and the registration interface, given that the application deadline had been extended, would be available until Thursday night at 8 p.m. The opportunity for tests will also be has extended to VET staff, although they will no doubt have a digital work schedule outside of the curriculum by January 11th.

On Monday, police officers took action in 210 cases against those who did not wear a mask, took the floor Kristóf Gál, spokesman for the National Police Headquarters. In 73 cases, fines were imposed on site and in 85 cases a complaint was filed. 382 actions were taken on the last day for violating curfew restrictions. Currently, 21,667 are in official home quarantine.

Ágnes Galgóczi, head of the department of the National Center for Public Health (NNK), also began by presenting the numbers. 902 new infections were registered and 131 patients died.

To date, 2,461 healthcare workers have been vaccinated against the coronavirus

– he continued. There are currently five vaccination points, but the number will soon increase to 25.

According to Galgóczi, the next shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will arrive in Hungary this week, and then it will arrive in all the vaccine counties. In 2021 it will allow additional vaccines, according to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) Galgóczi. He will also come to Hungary from these. The head of the department also referred to the Russian vaccine, which was enough to vaccinate 6,000 doses, or 3,000 people, which arrived in the country on Monday so that Hungarian specialists could examine them.

In response to a question, Galgóczi also stated that at the time of the vaccination the vaccination books that prove the administration of the vaccine would be delivered. This individual certificate will also indicate the date of the second vaccination required to establish protection. Protection against the virus develops on the seventh day after the second vaccination. The expert highlighted:

We should not be afraid of vaccination, but of infection.


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You can request the Covid test for preschool and school workers until Thursday night



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The test is free and is performed at 99 sampling points throughout the country.

Four coronavirus prisoners died in Hungarian prisons



András Dezső
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All had a chronic underlying disease.