Eight countries accept the Hungarian immunity certificate

Fully 73 patients, generally elderly with co-morbidities, died over the past 24 hours, while 1,039 new infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Saturday.

So far 4,554,679 people have received a first jab, while 2,656,671 have been fully vaccinated.

The number of active infections has declined to 149,707, while hospitals are treating 2,453 Covid patients, 308 of whom need respiratory assistance.

There are almost 20 thousand people in official quarantine, while more than 5.6 million tests have been officially carried out.

Since the first outbreak, 797,429 infections have been registered, while fatalities have risen to 29,114. Fully 618,608 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.

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The application for the immunity certificate can now be downloaded

The application “substituting” the plastic card proving protection against coronavirus infection is now available for download. The app is available here (after logging in).

The completion of the application was announced by government spokesman Alexandra Szentkirályi on Thursday’s government information. She said the app will also be available on mobile phones with Android and iOS and will include the name of the vaccinee, the date of the vaccinations, and the type of vaccination – which is not on the plastic card-based security certificates.

However, when installing the application, only one QR code is displayed, below our name, number of shots, date of vaccination and the state of protection, the type of vaccination is not.

Read more about the app HERE.

Currently, there are eight countries accepting the Hungarian immunity certificate:

• Bahrein
• Romania
• the Czech Republic
• Slovenia 
• Serbia
• Turkey
• North Macedonia
• Montenegro

Source: koronavirus.gov.hu