This is when Hungary can fully reopen

We can reopen if every person who registered and is above 65 got the vaccine. That will happen when the number of inoculated citizens reaches 2.5 million, PM Viktor Orbán said in his Friday morning radio interview. Portfolio.hu analysed the progress of the vaccination program defining what the timeline of reopening might be. We sum up their findings below.

According to Portfolio.hu, everything depends on two key factors: the peak of the third wave and whether enough people will accept the vaccines which will come in mass numbers from April.

PM Viktor Orbán said yesterday in his regular Kossuth Radio interview that they are now compiling the plan for reopening. However, he shared no further details except that they will launch the first phase when 2.5 million people will have received the vaccine. Portfolio.hu says that

there are at least 800 thousand elderly waiting for their vaccine.

With their inoculation, the government’s first target can be reached.

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The data of the Hungarian vaccination program shows that if there are enough jabs,

the Hungarian system can administer 40-60 thousand doses per day.

Furthermore, there are days when this number rises to 80-110 doses.

Based on that, Portfolio.hu calculated the expected date of when the number of vaccinated people reaches 2.5 million, 3 million, 3.5 million, and 4 million. Results show that the first target can be reached by April 7, which means that, according to Portfolio.hu, this is when the government can start to ease the restrictions. As a result,