Coronavirus in Hungary – 25 hospitals selected to inoculate health staff

Twenty-five hospitals nationwide have been selected to vaccinate health-care workers against Covid-19, the government’s coronavirus press centre told MTI on Wednesday.

Budapest’s Honvéd, South-Pest Centrum, Szent János and Szent Imre hospitals, the Korányi Pulmonology Institute and Semmelweis University will serve as vaccination facilities, while in the provinces the central hospitals of each county will serve the purpose.

The hospitals have been selected to allow for timely preparations before the vaccine arrives in Hungary, the press office said.

Over 100,000 register for vaccine on first day

The number of registrations for the coronavirus vaccine has exceeded 100,000 on the first day after the registration was opened on Tuesday, a government official said on Wednesday.

Csaba Dömötör, a state secretary of the cabinet office, said in a video on Facebook that the government had contracted 17 million doses of various vaccines from various manufacturers.

Mass inoculation will start once the public health authority has approved the vaccines, he said.

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Source: MTI