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The new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) was detected in 2,764 new Hungarian citizens, increasing the number of infected people in Hungary to 325,278. Most of the 130 deaths were chronically elderly patients, bringing the number of deaths to 9,667.
The number of recovered people is also steadily increasing, currently 157,063 people, the number of actively infected people has decreased to 158,548 people. 5,648 coronavirus patients are hospitalized, 401 of whom are on ventilators. So far, a total of 80,000 doses of vaccine have arrived in Hungary, with which health workers are already vaccinated at 21 hospital vaccination points. To stop the epidemic and guarantee the functioning of hospitals, the protection measures in force until now remain in force.
A day earlier, 2,971 people had been diagnosed with coronavirus infection and 108 chronic patients, mostly elderly, had died. On the last day of the year, 5,856 coronavirus patients were hospitalized, 402 of whom were connected to a ventilator.
The vaccine has reached a new stage in the control of the coronavirus epidemic with the arrival of the vaccine in Hungary,
so far, a total of 80,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine, which will enable 40,000 health workers to be vaccinated.
The vaccines that arrived on Wednesday were delivered at 21 hospital vaccination points: in addition to several hospitals in Budapest, in Győr, Kecskemét, Szolnok, Tatabánya, Kaposvár, Pécs, Miskolc, Szeged, Székesfehérvár, Debrecen, Balassagyarmat, Nyeszprés, and Veshezprémé. More shipments will arrive in the coming weeks and vaccination could continue at that rate.
In the first half of the year, pharmaceutical authorities are expected to authorize new vaccines, and then additional vaccines may arrive in Hungary to begin mass vaccination of the population. The vaccination will be free and voluntary, so you should definitely register. So far, almost 600,000 people have registered for vaccination on the website www.valcinainfo.gov.hu and by mail.
(Cover image: Nurse dressed in a protective suit in a room enabled to receive patients infected by the coronavirus in the Kútvölgy block of the St. John’s Hospital in the capital on December 15, 2020. Photo: Zoltán Balogh / MTI)
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