Hundreds have died in Hungary after receiving the coronavirus vaccine
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The government has released new statistics detailing the COVID-19-related infections and deaths that have occurred among the vaccinated Hungarian population.
According to Portfolio.hu, the chart published on the government’s official Facebook page covers the period from 26 December 2020 to 20 April 2021. For each available vaccine in Hungary, it gives both the absolute figures and the projected numbers of infections and deaths per 100,000 vaccinated individuals.
In total, during this five-month period, 5,714 people tested positive for the coronavirus after receiving the second dose of any of the 5 vaccines and 273 passed away. Taking into account that 1,400,703 individuals were fully inoculated up to this point, it can be calculated that
0.4% of those vaccinated caught the coronavirus and 0.02% died from the disease, making vaccines an incredibly effective tool in battling the pandemic.
As for the vaccine-specific data, the following figures were published:
- Sputnik-V: 201 infections and 2 deaths
- Moderna: 108 infections and 12 deaths
- Sinopharm: 1,744 infections and 78 deaths
- Pfizer/BioNTech: 3,048 infections and 175 deaths
- AstraZeneca: 613 infections and 6 deaths.
Calculated per 100,000 vaccinated individuals, the average incidence rates are as follows: