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Epidemic situation in Hungary ‘extremely grave’, says chief medical officer – UPDATE
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The past few days have seen an “unprecedented upsurge” of the coronavirus epidemic in Hungary, making the situation “extremely grave”, the chief medical officer told an online briefing on Tuesday.
Cecília Müller noted that the number of active infections have grown by “five to ten thousand people in the past couple of days”.
The number of people in hospital and on ventilators in the past 24 hours, 8,270 and 833 respectively, both broke the records of Dec. 7 for highest number of people on ventilators (674) and Dec. 8 for the highest number of hospitalised patients (8,045), she said.
The health-care system is hit hard by the high patient numbers, with new wards being opened for Covid patients every day, she added.
Meanwhile, trace amounts of coronavirus in the waste water have grown in every Hungarian city, she said, forecasting a further increase in case numbers.
Müller called on everyone to observe hygiene guidelines carefully and to accept the vaccine when offered.
She said one recent change to the national vaccination strategy has been a shift in focus to administer as many first doses as possible.