Hungarian healthcare system

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causing mass illness among Hungarian children

Hungary-children

A so-called respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes mass illness among Hungarian children below 2. At the Semmelweis University, the number of small children treated with respiratory symptoms increased tenfold, they said. Attila Szabó, chairman of the paediatrics branch of the hospital, said that RSV is a well-known pathogen.

Number of new RSV cases rising

According to Helló Magyar, RSV is a virulent pathogen transmitted via inhalation of droplets. However, it has not caused an epidemic for decades. It is dangerous for newborns and babies. In their case, it can cause severe inflammation of the respiratory system. Furthermore, it might result in pneumonia inhibiting oxygen uptake.

The peak of RSV infections is in late autumn and the winter months.

However, this year that changed since many patients came already from October. Attila Szabó highlighted that the 4-5-day-long incubation period helped the spread of the virus.

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RSV does not cause severe symptoms in the case of older children or adults. They mostly experience only a runny nose, higher body temperature, or lack of appetite. Therefore, they are a risk only of spreading the virus. Mr Szabó highlighted that there is no treatment or medicine for RSV. Thus, parents should concentrate on prevention. Using a mask, washing your hands regularly, or social distancing can help. The RSV

remains virulent for 7-8 hours even on solid surfaces like door handles or phones.

No vaccine

Mr Szabó said that one should turn to a doctor in case of unappeasable coughing fit, panting or hyperventilation. If a newborn or a premature refuses to eat, we should take that as a warning sign, as well. This year they met even 6-year-old children requiring hospital treatment with RSV.

There is no vaccine for RSV.

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However, children below two are entitled to passive immunisation, meaning antibody injection into the muscles. However, that provides only short-term immunity. To identify the disease, we can use quick tests and children PCR. A positive result does not mean quarantine or hospital treatment, Mr Szabó said.

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COVID peaking + new flu variants to hit Hungary

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Experts say that we should expect a severe flu epidemic because of the current moderate epidemic measures and the new variants that have appeared since last year. The good news is that there are multiple vaccines against the flu in Hungary. They can be administered two weeks after the Covid-19 jabs. MTI reported that 215 patients died of a Covid-related illness during the past 24 hours. Meanwhile, 7,310 new coronavirus infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Thursday.

New flu variants evolved in Asia

According to experts talking to Magyar Nemzet, 15-20 pc of the population gets the flu virus regularly. Last year, this rate was 0, but

the prognosis for 2021 says that the ratio will be around 30-40%.

That is because, last year, there was no traffic between Hungary and South-East Asia where the new flu variants evolve. Thus, they could not get into Europe. Furthermore, even if they did, they did not have a chance to spread because of Covid-19 measures, like mask-wearing. 

However, in 2021, such measures are much more moderate, so the virus will have a chance to spread, Dr Lajos Ócsai, the Head of the Department of Epidemiology Office of the Chief Medical Officer of State, told the Hungarian daily. The H3N2 variant of the virus, for example, has

already been detected in Croatia, the Netherlands, Russia, Scotland, Ireland, and Sweden.

He said that the outbreak of a flu epidemic is inevitable in places where authorities do not ban mass events.

Therefore, people should accept the flu vaccine. This is extremely important for those struggling with other diseases because both the coronavirus and the flu viruses make other illnesses worse.

This is why it is worth administering the flu jab

Furthermore, the flu has a lot of post-symptoms, too.

It increases the probability of a stroke, an aneurysm, and other cardiovascular catastrophes five- or tenfold.

Dr Ócsai highlighted there were three vaccines available in Hungary against the flu. All of them are the products of classic procedures, and the French one can be administered even to pregnant women.

He added that the flu vaccine could be injected two weeks after the Covid-19 jabs.

Meanwhile, the fourth wave is peaking in Hungary, with high mortality rates and infection numbers. According to MTI, a total of 

215 patients died of a Covid-related illness during the past 24 hours, while 7,310 new coronavirus infections were registered, 

koronavirus.gov.hu said on Thursday. So far, 6,171,489 people have received the first jab, while 5,878,951 have been fully vaccinated. A total of 2,864,506 Hungarians have received a booster jab.

The number of active infections stands at 184,527, while hospitals are treating 7,119 Covid-19 patients, 579 of whom need respiratory assistance. Since the first outbreak, 1,176,038 infections have been registered, while the number of fatalities has risen to 36,263. 955,248 people have made a full recovery. There are 53,187 people in official quarantine, while the number of tests taken stands at 8,734,938.

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Hungarian Olympic champion in critical condition due to coronavirus

The 51-year-old former Hungarian Olympic champion receives hospital care in Budapest and is currently in an intensive care unit.

Szilveszter Csollány, Olympic, world and European champion gymnast is on a ventilator – says Magyar Nemzet. The 51-year-old former athlete is currently being treated in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Budapest due to the complications of the coronavirus infection.

The former athlete caught the coronavirus three weeks ago, and his condition began to deteriorate a week ago.

The newspaper called Csollány on the 23rd November to make their usual Saturday interview, but Csollány asked to postpone it due this his illness. Last Monday, he only responded to the newspaper by a text message, saying, that he was still not able to make the interview because he was being hospitalised. After that, he did not respond to the inquiries anymore.

The Hungarian Gymnastics Association said that they cannot confirm or refute the fact that Csollány is in the hospital.

“I do not know details about Szilas’s status or well-being” – said Csollány’s former coach, István Vereckei according to Borsonline.

The trainer continued: “Even the fact surprised me, that his body, his immune system was not resistant to the virus. I talked to him regularly on the phone and he recently mentioned that he started running half marathons. This is good for fitness, but it was unusual to hear because gymnasts are not known for their passion for long distance running. We even organised a cooking competition together. He claimed that he was better in the kitchen than me. However, when he tasted my cooking, he admitted that I was more competent with the spoon. I wish he will visit us again as soon as possible, and we can make some Christmas delicacies together. I pray for his speedy recovery.”

Csollány worked as a coach in Austria and was often sharing Covid-skeptical and anti-vaccination content on his Facebook page.

He won an Olympic silver medal in 1996 and a gold medal in 2000 as well as world championships and European championships.

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Omicron variant detected near Hungary + latest COVID data

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The omicron variant of the virus was detected in Croatia, the country’s public health institution told yesterday. Based on the HZJZ’s decision, regardless of whether one is vaccinated or not, they have to go to a 14-day-long quarantine provided they got in touch with people having the South-African variant.

According to portfolio.hu, those concerned have to do a PCR test on both the first and last day of their quarantine. The Croatian public health authority announced on Monday the detection of the new variant in two citizens. They took part in an international conference a couple of days before. Later that day, they published a new statement clearing that

they found the third omicron-infected patient.

In Croatia, there are 2,436 patients treated in hospitals, 319 of them receive respiratory assistance.

Reuters reported that “British drugmaker GSK (GSK.L) said on Tuesday its antibody-based COVID-19 therapy with U.S. partner Vir Biotechnology (VIR.O) is effective against all mutations of the new Omicron coronavirus variant.”

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In Hungary, altogether 213 patients died of a Covid-related illness during the past 24 hours, while 6,849 new coronavirus infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Wednesday. So far 6,166,840 people have received a first jab, while 5,874,429 have been fully vaccinated. Altogether

2,824,464 Hungarians have received a booster jab.

The number of active infections stands at 184,295, while hospitals are treating 7,206 Covid-19 patients, 607 of whom need respiratory assistance. Since the first outbreak, 1,168,728 infections have been registered, while the number of fatalities has risen to 36,048. Fully 948,385 people have made a recovery. There are 47,718 people in official quarantine, while the number of tests taken stands at 8,701,776.

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New statistics show how many vaccinated people are treated in Hungarian hospitals

Coronavirus hospital

The Hungarian Doctors’ Association has conducted a non-representative study about the status of patients treated in the intensive care unit in Hungarian hospitals.

According to Hellómagyar, the Association has examined the case of 125 patients to conclude the following data.

What are the conditions of the examined 125 patients?

  • 70 people are intubated under anaesthesia while on ventilators
  • 35 people receive non-invasive (out of body) respiratory assistance
  • 20 people need to be administered oxygen

What is the distribution of the examined 125 people in relation to their vaccination status?

  • 87 people have received no vaccination
  • 31 people have been vaccinated over four months ago
  • 7 people have been vaccinated within the last four months (2 of them have had their booster jab)

The Hungarian Doctors’ Association has highlighted that there were great differences between people who have received their vaccination and those who have not, as well as between people who are intubated and those who are not.

They also said that people who have received their vaccination and are in the hospitals are usually people born in the 1930s and 1950s.

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What vaccines did the people who were administered to hospital care get?

  • 15 people were administered the Sinopharm vaccine
  • 7 people were administered Astra-Zeneca
  • 5 people were administered Pfizer-BioNTech
  • 5 people were administered Janssen
  • 4 people were administered Sputnik V
  • 1 person was administered Moderna
  • 1 person received only one dose of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine over four months ago

Dr Gábor Zacher, a toxicology specialist, says that, unfortunately, Hungary is in the 5th worst place in terms of Covid deaths per 1 million capita. This could be due to the overall bad health of Hungarians.

On a different note, Hungarian research found that anti-depressants could help mitigate the symptoms of patients who have serious pneumonia caused by the coronavirus.

Index writes that the research was conducted in the Semmelweis University’s teaching hospital on Uzsoki Street back between March 17 and April 22. During that period, the medical experts examined 269 patients. The patients, on top of normal care, received direct treatment against coronavirus (favipiravir, remdevisir and other medications).

The research found that the mortality rate of the group who had received fluoxetine significantly – 70%, to be exact – decreased.

The finding of this Hungarian research seems to correlate with international data of Stanford and California universities that show that certain anti-depressants, such as fluoxetine, could bolster our defences against the coronavirus pandemic.

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LMP party: Govt should provide 80% wage subsidy for ppl who lost their job

Péter Ungár Opposition Party LMP Member

Hungary must prepare for the possibility of a prolonged economic slowdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, a lawmaker of opposition LMP said on Friday.

More and more western European countries are bringing back lockdowns, which will also affect the Hungarian economy, Péter Ungár told an online press conference, predicting that the country’s tourism sector would not recover until at least March next year.

He said the government was not doing enough to ease the effects of the crisis on certain sectors and was only looking at macroeconomic indicators.

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“But GDP growth is no consolation to someone who has had to close their restaurant,” Ungár argued.

He pointed out that the Austrian government had paid out 50 times as much wage support money as the Hungarian government.

He said the government should provide an 80 percent wage subsidy to those who had lost their jobs during the pandemic and extend the period of eligibility for unemployment benefits from three months to nine.

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Top court: vaccine mandate for healthcare workers legal

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The government mandate requiring health-care workers to get vaccinated against Covid is not unconstitutional, as it serves the smooth functioning of the health-care system, the Constitutional Court ruled on Friday.
 
Under the government decree making Covid vaccination mandatory for health-care workers, those refusing to get the jab are to be fired and are not entitled to severance pay.
 
Health-care employees lodged hundreds of appeals
 
with the Constitutional Court challenging the constitutionality of the mandate.
 
 
In its Friday resolution, the court rejected the complaints, saying that the vaccine mandate served to guarantee the smooth functioning of the health-care system, patient safety and the enforcement of patients’ right to life and health.
 
The vaccine mandate for health-care workers is constitutional and a “proportionate restriction”,
 
the court ruled.
 
The Constitutional Court also cited the World Health Organization’s (WHO) position that public health goals such as the containment of a pandemic warrant the use of legal coercion as a last resort.
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A vaccination day will be held in all Hungarian localities within the next six weeks, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told public radio on Friday.
 
In the interview, Orbán predicted that the number of people opting for a booster jab against Covid-19 would “skyrocket”. Some one million vaccines were administered by Thursday evening in the first two weeks of the campaign, he said. Around 800,000 were booster jabs, and 115,000 went to people who “for whatever reason” had not accepted the vaccine before, he said.
 
Hungarians are much safer thanks to the vaccine,
 
he said. So far, 2.6 million people, or 27 percent of the population, have received a booster jab, compared with a European Union average of 10 percent, he said.
 
Given that the effectiveness of vaccinations declines after six months, the government will contact citizens in person, by email, text message or by post to ask them to get a booster. Orbán
 
praised doctors, nurses, police and soldiers, saying they had withstood the challenges,
 
and Hungary’s health system was still standing despite the strains. Commenting on the omicron variant, the prime minister the scientific community was as yet unclear as to its dangers or speed of transmission, but initial reactions of fear were likely to turn out to be greater than dangers posed by omicron. Still, he urged caution.
 
 
Meanwihle, altogether
 
191 patients died of a Covid-related illness over the past 24 hours,
 
while 10,143 new coronavirus infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Friday. So far 6,145,984 people have received a first jab, while 5,858,119 have been fully vaccinated. Altogether 2,665,330 Hungarians have received a booster jab.
 
The number of active infections stands at 189,002, while hospitals are treating 7,463 Covid-19 patients, 566 of whom need respiratory assistance. Since the first outbreak, 1,143,869 infections have been registered, while the number of fatalities has risen to 35,122. Fully 910,745 people have made a recovery. There are 60,555 people in official quarantine, while the number of tests taken stands at 8,559,975.
 

Almost 200 patients died in the last 24h, more soldiers to go to the hospitals

Coronavirus hospital
Altogether 195 patients died of a Covid-related illness over the past 24 hours, while 6,390 new coronavirus infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Tuesday. The Hungarian Armed Forces is assigning more soldiers to help out staff at Hungary’s hospitals during the prolonged national vaccination campaign, the defence ministry said on Monday.
 
So far 6,126,420 people have received a first jab, while 5,842,885 have been fully vaccinated. Altogether 2,515,398 Hungarians have received a booster jab. The number of active infections stands at 185,928, while hospitals are treating 7,596 Covid-19 patients, 513 of whom need respiratory assistance.

Since the first outbreak, 1,103,108 infections have been registered, while the number of fatalities has risen to 34,521. Fully 882,659 people have made a recovery. There are 49,607 people in official quarantine, while the number of tests taken stands at 8,443,744.
 
 
 
More than 60 additional soldiers are being assigned to hospitals and health-care institutions to assist the Covid response efforts
 
and take the burden off health-care staff, the ministry said in a statement. This means there are now some 870 soldiers supporting the health-care system at 95 locations, it said. The soldiers assigned to the hospitals help out with logistical tasks, temperature screenings, directing patients to the right place as well as with administrative and transportation tasks.
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500,000 get Covid jabs during vaccination drive, new variant not detected in Hungary

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More than half a million people were inoculated against Covid during the first five days of Hungary’s national vaccination drive, with over 60,000 of them getting their first jab, Human Resources Minister Miklós Kásler said on Saturday.

As the government has extended the vaccination campaign by another week, people may continue to come to any of the country’s designated hospital vaccination points between 7:00 in the morning and 7:00 in the evening without having to register or make an appointment until Dec. 5, Kásler said in a video message on Facebook.

So far, some 6.1 million Hungarians have received at least one Covid jab, the minister said.

“During the third wave of the pandemic, the vaccines available in Hungary helped prevent around 9,500 deaths,” Kásler said, adding that some 40 percent of those people had received the Chinese Sinopharm and the Russian Sputnik V jabs.

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He welcomed the European Medicines Agency’s decision to clear the use of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab for children between the ages of 5 and 12, noting that their inoculation was set to start after Dec. 20.

Kásler said the booster shot was recommended to everyone who received their second dose over four months ago.

On another note, the new Omicron variant of COVID-19 has not yet been detected in available samples in Hungary, the national public health centre NNK told daily Magyar Nemzet on Sunday.

The website of the daily mno.hu said it had contacted NNK for information after reports on the Omicron variant from countries in Hungary’s “direct neighbourhood”, such as Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany and Italy.

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This is how effective the vaccines in Hungary are

A recent Hungarian study shows how effective vaccines are in Hungary. Among the authors of the study presenting the results are Cecília Müller and Miklós Kásler. They published their results in a prestigious international journal called Clinical Microbiology and Infection.

Recent Study on vaccine efficacy

The study calculated with 3.7 million vaccinated people. Each of these individuals received a second vaccination. The effectiveness is shown by the fact that the infections and number of deaths registered among those vaccinated were compared with data of the unvaccinated control group, writes 24.hu. The obtained results were treated with statistical methods. Researchers also considered gender, age, and date of vaccination.

Among those completely vaccinated, protection against the infection is 68.7 to 88.7 per cent, depending on the vaccine.

Vaccine protection against mortality ranges from 87.5 to 97.5 per cent. Among 16 and 44-year-olds, the latter is 100 per cent. So, no one has died in this age group among those who have received both vaccines. The study period always begins 7 days after the second vaccination.

Comparison between vaccines

The research looked at how effective the different types of vaccines are for specific age groups. Overall, Sinopharm has the lowest efficacy. It protects against the infection in only 43.1 per cent among those over the age of 85.

Data collection for the study ended on June 10th.

This is important because the latest outbreak of the epidemic is no longer included in the study. It is also important to note that the effectiveness of vaccines decreases significantly after half a year, writes telex.hu.

Tamás Ferenci, a biostatistician at the University of Óbuda, also gave his opinion on the results of the study. Ferenci emphasised that the study is not about the current performance of the vaccines. “We need one thing. We need to know the results earlier, especially in an epidemic like this where a week matters. But it is very simple: we have the data, and we have the analysis program required for preparing a study like the one presenting the current results,” said Ferenci.

PM Orbán: “we can have a big family Christmas this year”

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The government is prolonging the national vaccination campaign by a week, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on public radio on Friday. “We can have a big family Christmas this year” only if the number of those taking booster shots grows significantly, Orbán said.

Most of those being vaccinated are receiving the third jab now, with the number of those still taking the first dose the lowest, he said. Orbán said that while lockdowns only slowed the spread of the disease, booster shots offered a decisive solution. At the same time, people should also comply with the protection measures in place, he said.
 
He asked Hungarians to take the third jab.
 
“We have managed to save the lives of those who did,” he said. On the subject of possible further restrictions, Orbán said the government would not exclude anything. If take-up of booster shots rose and the pace of new infections could be reined in or halted, shutdowns would be unnecessary, he added.
 
Following European approval for a vaccine that can be used to inoculate 5-12 year-olds, Hungary has purchased 2 million doses, he said, adding that the first shipment of 130,000 doses was expected to arrive on Dec. 20. After that, deliveries of the vaccine suitable for children would be continuous.
 
Orbán appealed to parents to vaccinate their children.
 
The prime minister said administration and health-care staff, as well as people helping police officers and soldiers, were a guarantee of Hungary’s health-care system not collapsing. All the necessary equipment, beds, ventilators are available, as well as the designated Covid hospital, which could be operational “in an instant”.
 
 
Calling the work of doctors and nurses “superhuman” and “heroic”, Orban noted the government’s decision to boost wages in the sector. The wage hikes signalled to health-care staff that “the country stands by them”, he added. Meanwhile, Orbán said
 
migration was expected to ramp up significantly at Hungary’s southern border over the next few months.
 
So far this year, more than 100,000 migrants have been stopped at Hungary’s border, three times last year’s figure. At the same time, the Italian-Spanish, Eastern and Balkan routes were all seeing a massive increase in migration, he said, noting that 30,000-35,000 people were leaving Afghanistan each day, most likely in Hungary’s direction, intending to traverse the country.
 
He said the European Union’s rules on migration had been written in peacetime and were now obsolete. “Today there’s no peacetime,” he added. The new Berlin government sees Germany “as an immigrant country”, while Hungary is not in favour of turning into one, he said, adding that the two standpoints were “incompatible”, and neither side would abandon its position.
 
He noted that Hungary deports illegal migrants across the border,
 
and applications for asylum are processed either at the Hungarian embassy of their country of origin or the last country they have passed through. He also noted that the EU rejected this solution and insisted Hungary should “accept these people” and process asylum claims in the country.
 
 
 
Brussels, Orbán added, should cover its share of the costs of defending Europe’s external border rather than punishing countries on the frontline doing so. Instead, the EU funded the “pro-migration organisations” of George Soros, he said.
 
On the topic of the cap on utility bills, Orbán underlined the
 
government’s commitment to “defending its results”.
 
Put to him that the government scheme was anti-market, he said: “I’m not interested in the market; I’m interested in the Hungarian people.”
 
Orbán said the left wing believed in an “oracle” that conjured an image of the market. “We, on the other hand, must base our logic on being free and able to regulate ourselves.” He said the scheme which has run for the past eight years had proven its worth and it must be defended “by attacking the left wing and Brussels”.
 
The prime minister said tax increases would inevitably follow an election win by the left. The Fidesz government, however, pursued tax cuts as a way to create jobs, he added.
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Breaking – Hungary to start inoculating children aged 5-11!

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Hungary is prepared to inoculate children aged 5-11 against Covid after the European drug regulator approved the use of Pfizer’s vaccine for this age group, the government website koronavirus.gov.hu said on Thursday.
 
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Thursday gave the go-ahead for the vaccination of children between the ages of 5 and 11 using the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid jab.
 
Hungary has enough Pfizer vaccines in stock to organise the inoculation of this age group, and
 
the government has set aside more jabs for the vaccination of children,
 
the website said.
 
Hungary began vaccinating teens aged 16-17 against Covid in May, the site said, adding that 56 percent of this age group was now inoculated. Children between the ages of 12 and 15 began receiving the shots a month later, and now have a 36 percent inoculation rate, it said.
 
 
The website noted that
 
parental consent is required for the vaccination of those under the age of 18.
 
Meanwhile, the website said that some 6,000 children between the ages of 12 and 17 have received a jab since the start of this week’s national vaccination campaign, with most of them getting their first shot.
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KSH: deaths outstrip births in October

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The rate of natural decline in the population decreased by 34 percent in October, with the number of births increasing by 3.1 percent and deaths decreasing by 10 percent compared with the previous year, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said on Thursday.
 
In October, 8,289 children were born, 248 more than in the same month in the previous year, while 11,252 people died, 1,252 fewer than during the same month in 2020.

In the Jan-Oct period, there were 77,687 births, down 21 from the same period a year earlier.
 
The number of deaths was 122,622, up 14 percent from the same period in 2020.
 
The rise in deaths and the drop in the birth rate means that the rate of natural population decline was up by 52 percent compared with the same period last year, KSH said.
 
The number of marriages fell, with 5,293 couples tying the knot, 19 percent less than during the same period in 2020, it said.
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Coronavirus raging in Hungary – latest data

Coronavirus in Hungary
Altogether 185 patients died of a Covid-related illness during the past 24 hours, while 12,165 new coronavirus infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Thursday.
 
So far 6,072,192 people have received a first jab, while 5,816,050 have been fully vaccinated. Fully 2,153,117 Hungarians have received a booster jab.
 
The number of active infections stands at 165,862, while hospitals are treating 6,858 Covid-19 patients,
 
680 of whom need respiratory assistance.
 
Since the first outbreak, 1,057,017 infections have been registered, while the number of fatalities has risen to 33,704. Fully 857,451 people have made a recovery.
 
There are 64,002 people in official quarantine, while the number of tests taken stands at 8,249,524.
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The number of infected reached a new record in Hungary!

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Altogether 176 patients died of a Covid-related illness during the past 24 hours, while 12,637 new coronavirus infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Wednesday.
 
So far 6,057,367 people have received a first jab, while 5,808,536 have been fully vaccinated. Fully 2,043,213 Hungarians have received a booster jab.

The number of active infections stands at 155,003, while hospitals are treating 6,840 Covid-19 patients, 664 of whom need respiratory assistance.
 
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Since the first outbreak, 1,044,852 infections have been registered, while the number of fatalities has risen to 33,519. Fully 856,330 people have made a recovery.

There are 54,978 people in official quarantine, while the number of tests taken stands at 8,196,724.
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Cutting-edge super hospital to be built in Budapest – PHOTOS

Superhospital Budapest

Hungary has recently launched a new development program called Egészséges Budapest Program (Healthy Budapest Program) that will change the scene of Hungarian healthcare. The development promises utopistic hospitals where doctors are assisted by robots and patients receive top-notch healing services.

The Healthy Budapest super development program will cost over 700 billion forints (€ 1.945 billion). The program will radically change the future of Hungarian healthcare, including hospitals, by modernising and restructuring the healthcare infrastructure of Hungary’s capital city, Magyarépítők says.

As part of the development plan, several clinics and hospitals will be renewed and expanded as well as four new ultramodern central hospitals will be built. One of these cutting-edge designs is the Dél-budai Centrumkórház, or South Buda Central Hospital (DBC). According to Róbert J. Bedros, senior advisor of the project, this project will be the “development of the century”.

  • Superhospital Budapest
  • Superhospital Budapest

According to Magyarépítők, the South Buda Central Hospital will be built in district XI. of Budapest in the Dobogó area. The fully equipped hospital will provide healthcare services for the over 1.2 million residents of Budapest including people living in the agglomeration and in the neighbouring counties.

If everything goes according to plan, the cornerstone of the building will be placed during spring time in 2022 and the construction work will be completed by 2026.

Róbert J. Bedros, the senior advisor of the project gave an interview to Origo in which he told more details about the construction of the sci-fi like hospital which is currently in its development phase.

  • Superhospital Budapest
  • Superhospital Budapest

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What will it include?

Bedros said that it is going to be one of the most sophisticated buildings in Hungary to date. The hospital will utilise state-of-the-art healthcare technologies,will be built with the latest architectural solutions, and will have the largest floorspace (five football fields) in the country.

He also added that robots will assist the hospital staff in several fields. They will do menial tasks such as carrying the laundry, food, and equipment from one place to another. In addition, robot assistants will also bolster the working staff by monitoring patients, recording data to the electronic medical report, and alerting professionals when needed, Bedros said.

He also talked about robot surgeons which can assist the doctors’ work.

  • Superhospital Budapest
  • Superhospital Budapest
  • Superhospital Budapest

Although they still require a person to guide them, he said, this cutting-edge equipment could eliminate human error as well as enhance the surgeons’ capabilities by performing complicated procedures such as prenatal surgeries. Bedros said that they would like to build a special operating room for intrauterine procedures.

A.I. will help to record patients when they arrive at the hospital and, thanks to these technological devices, medical education can also reach higher levels in the institution. They plan on utilising modern technologies so that students will be able to watch procedures on large screens while asking questions from the operating team.

Superhospital Budapest Blueprint
Design: teampannon.hu/

Bedros also told Origo that they will also bear medical education in mind by reserving some rooms for educational practises.

“Our prospective colleagues will be able to tackle such professional challenges by using our facilities’ top-notch technologies that it will give them a priceless competitive edge for their future career.”

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PM Orbán about fourth wave: “the hard part still to come”

Viktor Orbán
Hungary is deep in the fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic, with “the hard part still to come”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in his regular weekly interview on public radio on Friday, adding that “the only thing that ensures protection is the jab”.
 
Those that are not inoculated are in “mortal danger”, Orbán said, but warned that the unvaccinated “pose a danger not only to themselves but to all others”. He warned that restrictive measures could not provide protection against the virus, just slow down its spread among the population.
 
Four to six months after the second shot immunisation will decrease,
 
and it is justified to take a booster, he said. “If everybody were inoculated, there would be no fourth wave or it would be just a small one,” the prime minister said. With everybody inoculated there will be no fifth wave, he said, adding that “we cannot avoid that everybody should be inoculated at the end of the day”.
 
 
Altogether 135 patients died of a Covid-related illness during the past 24 hours, while 11,289 new coronavirus infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Friday. So far 6,017,807 people have received a first jab, while 5,788,775 have been fully vaccinated. Fully 1,765,000 Hungarians have received a booster jab.
 
The number of active infections stands at 128,124, while hospitals are treating 6,122 Covid-19 patients, 613 of whom need respiratory assistance. Since the first outbreak, 998,488 infections have been registered, while
 
the number of fatalities has risen to 32,780.
 
Fully 837,584 people have made a recovery. There are 59,177 people in official quarantine, while the number of tests taken stands at 8,006,581.
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