Important: Third wave seemed to have plateaued in Hungary, albeit at a high level

Some 250,000 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine will be delivered to Hungary on Tuesday, along with 28,000 doses of the single-dose Janssen Pharmaceutica vaccine, the chief medical officer said on Monday.

Cecília Müller told the press conference of the operative board handling the epidemic that the latter Johnson and Johnson jab will be mostly used at vaccination buses operated by the Armed Forces.

Müller said

the third wave of the pandemic seemed to have plateaued, albeit at a high level.

New case numbers have stagnated for over the past few days, she said.

The amount of the virus in waste water is also stagnating overall, she said. The amount of the virus contained in waste water, an indicator of new cases in the coming days,

increased in the cities of Eger, Salgótarján, Szombathely, Veszprém and Pécs,

while the amount detected fell in Békéscsaba, Debrecen, Győr, Székesfehérvár, Zalaegerszeg and Kecskemét.

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5 million vaccinated would curb pandemic

Some 5 million Hungarians will need to be inoculated to keep coronavirus case numbers constantly low in the country, the rector of Semmelweis University said on Monday, in a podcast with President János Áder.

Béla Merkely said inoculation was the only surefire way to vanquish the epidemic, and called on all to accept whetever vaccine they were offered.

The first jab brings “nearly 100 percent immunity” against severe illness, while the second multiples antibodies in the blood stream, he said. Those who contracted Covid-19 before being vaccinated will need only one jab, he added.

The rector said the number of all infections in Hungary, including those who have not been registered, is estimated to be between 2-4.9 million.

Due to the extremely infectious British variant “it is only a matter of time until the whole population becomes infected,” Merkely said.

The British variant also causes more severe cases, “sending a significant number of patients between 30 and 60 years of age to the ICU,” he warned.

President Áder called on Hungarians to register for the vaccine and accept the vaccine they were offered.

“That’s how we can win against the virus,” he said.

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Source: MTI