Children above 12 to be inoculated from September 1
That is what PM Viktor Orbán said in his regular Friday interview in Kossuth Rádió. He also said that he did not like the obligatory vaccination of the healthcare workers at first. However, the human resources minister, Miklós Kásler, convinced him that in a situation like the current one, it is morally acceptable.
Furthermore, the government will draw the attention of the 15 pc elderly people to accept the jab.
According to the MTI, no patients died over the past 24 hours, while85 new Covid infections were registered,
koronavirus.gov.hu said on Friday. So far 5,588,272 people have received a first jab, while 5,357,511 have been fully vaccinated.
The number of active infections has declined to 33,804, while hospitals are treating 67 Covid patients, 9 of whom need respiratory assistance.
There are 1,376 people in official quarantine, while 6,284,811 tests have been officially carried out.
Since the first outbreak, 809,101 infections have been registered, while the number of fatalities stands at 30,020. Fully 745,277 people have made a recovery. So far, most infections have been registered in Budapest and Pest County, followed by the counties of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Győr-Moson-Sopron and Hajdú-Bihar.