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In 2020, a new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) was detected in another Hungarian citizen, increasing the number of infected people in Hungary to 385,755, according to the government information page.
93 chronic patients, mostly elderly, died, bringing the number of deaths to 13,636. The number of cured people is constantly increasing, currently 293,542 people, the number of actively infected people has decreased to 78,577 people. 3,771 coronavirus patients are hospitalized, 299 of whom are on ventilators. So far 330,745 people have been vaccinated, of which 124,423 have already received their second vaccination. According to this week’s vaccination plan, most GPs are already vaccinating the oldest registered with the vaccine (with the Pfizer vaccine) and chronic patients under the age of 60 (with the AstraZeneca vaccine). In addition, the vaccination of elderly people without certain chronic risk diseases (with the Sputnik vaccine) was started at four hospital vaccination points in Budapest. Vaccination will continue next week and vaccine shipments will arrive on Thursday.
The epidemic has been slowed down thanks to constant control, but the data is stagnant, this warns us to be careful. The third wave is already underway in several European countries, with the British mutant virus spreading rapidly, infecting more people and increasing the number of patients. Therefore, the government maintains and extends the protection measures until March 1, and is working to make as many vaccines available as possible so that as many people as possible can be vaccinated and the restrictions begin to be lifted. The government is of the opinion that restrictions can only be lifted gradually and responsibly, and will soon seek the opinion of the people in a national online consultation, the site writes.
So far we have contracted 19.7 million doses of Western vaccines to tens of billions of guilders from various manufacturers (Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Janssen, Curevac), of which only Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca have had up to now an EU license and have started shipping to Hungary.
As there are few vaccines coming from Brussels and it is slow, Hungary will do its best to have enough vaccines to start mass vaccination. In addition to Western vaccines, there will be enough Chinese Sinopharm vaccine available to vaccinate 2.5 million people over the next 4 months. We expect enough Sputnik vaccine to vaccinate 1 million people in Russia in 3 months. The first shipment, enough to vaccinate 20,000, arrived last Tuesday. Until now and since then, only vaccines that are effective and safe according to the Hungarian authorities and that have been used in several countries have been marketed and can be marketed in Hungary.
In the order of vaccination, health workers come first, their campaign type vaccination ended.
In the second round, vaccinations were carried out for nursing homes and residential social institutions. The elderly or social workers who have not used the vaccination option so far, but change their mind, can indicate this intention to the management of the institution. The vaccination teams will return to institutions where the pandemic situation has so far not allowed vaccination.
In the third round, in the first week of February, the vaccination of the elderly registered for vaccination at hospital vaccination points and general practitioners began. Vaccination also continues this week: 2,964 GPs received 2 ampoules (enough to vaccinate 12 people) of the Pfizer vaccine, and 4 designated hospital vaccines in Budapest began vaccinating the elderly with certain chronic risk diseases, organized by doctors head in the capital. For vaccination.
In the fourth round, vaccination of chronic patients under 60 years also began this week. 2,040 physicians received 1 vial of AstraZeneca vaccine, of which 10 people can be vaccinated.
At this stage of the vaccination, the family doctors will inform the vaccinated about the exact place and time of vaccination. Arrive for the vaccination at the exact agreed time to avoid groupings, riots in the clinics and the hospital vaccination site! GPs will receive a weekly update of the list of people registered to receive vaccinations for their practice. Everyone who registered online or by mail will be in line.
Vaccination is free and voluntary, so it is definitely worth registering. More than 2 million people have already registered for vaccination on the website www.vakcinainfo.gov.hu.
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