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Hungary’s COVID-19 tally reaches 185,000, vaccine available early next year
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Fully 106 Covid patients, mostly elderly with an underlying illness, have died over the past 24 hours, while there were 3,806 newly registered coronavirus cases, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Wednesday.
Since the first outbreak in the spring, 185,687 people have been officially diagnosed with the virus and 4,008 fatalities, while 44,020 people have made a recovery.
Altogether there are 137,553 active infections, while 7,718 Covid patients are hospitalised, 656 on ventilators.
Fully 41,558 people are in official home quarantine, while and the number of tests carried out has risen to 1,548,318.
So far, most coronavirus cases have been registered in Budapest (42,454) and Pest County (24,439), followed by the countries of Győr-Moson-Sopron (12,522), Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén (11,040), Hajdú-Bihar (9,716) and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg counties (9670). Tolna (2,572) has the fewest cases.
Hungary likely to have vaccine available early next year
Human Resources Minister Miklós Kásler said on Tuesday that vaccination against the coronavirus is likely to become available in Hungary at the beginning of next year.
Kásler said during his annual hearing in parliament that any vaccination that is not effective or that causes side effects will not be allowed to be distributed in Hungary.
“We still do not know everything” about the vaccination against Covid-19 but at least six or seven vaccinations are in advanced trial stages and “we are close to” receiving the relevant documentations for expert review, he said.
He added that there were still many uncertainties surrounding the various vaccinations, such as how long they would give immunity and whether repeat inoculation would be needed.
In response to a question, he said “in all likelihood, the vaccine will be available by early next year” in Hungary.
Restrictions in Hungary
Between 9am and 11am on weekdays and 8am and 10am on weekends, customers below that age are banned from shopping in grocery shops, household chemists and pharmacies.
All of these restrictions should have been started in May or June. The Hungarian government has not taken proper precautions at all to protect it’s citizens!! You would think a country with negative population growth, where they have to pay couples to have multple children, would be more cautious about saving the population!! But no. Busses, trams, trains continue to be packed full. There is absolutely no disinfecting of public surfaces anywhere! In Transportation, grocery store carts and baskets, door handles, all are filthy and never cleaned. There are fake tests being given that do not even isolate, or label individual swabs, and they are not sent to a lav or placed in a testing unit. What kind of joke is this? Does no one have any concern sense of caution, to properly uphold proper sanitation and testing????? Are the Russians still runnung the place????