Hungary s Ventilator Death Rate Only Around 80 Percent, Healthcare Center Says hungarytoday.hu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hungarytoday.hu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Hungarian government's measures taken to tackle the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic have proved to be effective, Foreign minister Szijjártó said.
Family Birthday Party Ends in Two Coronavirus Fatalities
Beáta Rózsa and her family gathered in early March to celebrate her grandmother’s 86th birthday. It was later revealed that they had all contracted coronavirus, Beáta herself was hospitalized, and her grandmother and father have unfortunately passed away due to the infection.
The woman told her story to RTL Klub television channel, who said they had followed all the rules in the past one year and had little contact with other people. However, on her grandmother’s birthday, they decided to get together because they didn’t want the grandmother to be left alone.
PM Orbán: 4 Million Shots by Early May
The number of Hungarians who have received their first vaccine shot will have reached 4 million by early May, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview on Friday. The government still insists that restrictions can only slow down the spread of the virus, and only mass vaccination can help overcome the epidemic.
“We have been living under warlike conditions” for a year, under conditions that people knew only from their grandparents’ stories and films, Orbán told public broadcaster Kossuth Radio.
Orbán noted that the British coronavirus variant was more aggressive and destructive than the variant that had spread during the first wave of the pandemic. During the first wave, lockdowns and isolation were enough to rid the country of the epidemic for two to three months, he said. But the British variant was different, he added, and lockdowns could only slow down its transmission, while only vaccines could get rid of it.
Experts Continue to Warn Gov t: Not Time to Reopen Hungary Yet hungarytoday.hu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hungarytoday.hu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.