Hungarian chief medical officer urges people to take up vaccine offered amid upsurge ?

Amid the current upsurge of the coronavirus epidemic, the chief aim is to prevent serious cases and hospitalisations, and all vaccines are appropriate to this end, the chief medical officer said on Tuesday.

Cecília Müller told a briefing of the operational body responsible for controlling the epidemic that transmissions were surging in Hungary as well as in the rest of Europe, and within a few hours of the onset of symptoms, the course of the disease could be severe.

“Don’t resign yourself to that,”

she said, adding that all the vaccines available in Hungary prevented serious and fatal cases.

Müller said it was vitally important for as many vaccinations to be administered as possible in the shortest possible time, and the pace would accelerate in Hungary over the next few days.

She said the upsurge during the third wave was most likely caused by the British and South African variants, five cases the latter of which have been detected in Hungary.

The chief medical officer said that

in the UAE, where six million people have already received the first dose of the Sinopharm vaccine, no one had ended up in intensive care with the virus.

Müller also noted that the vaccination plan has been modified in terms of how many vaccines are delivered to GPs, taking into account the number of patients assigned to a given practice and the proportion of chronic patients there.