Former President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences E. Sylvester Vizi has said in an inspiring statement aired in public Kossuth Radio that this virus is the plague of our time. Pharmacologist, physician, and neuroscientist, Professor E. Sylvester Vizi, who is also chair of the Board of Trustees of the Friends of Hungary Foundation which publishes Hungary Today, encourages us to be proud of the accomplishment of Katalin Karikó and her coworkers for developing the vaccine. Anyone who does not take part in the mass vaccination, he says, is committing a grave mistake.
The plague of our time, a small virus, is devastating the world. Hundreds of millions have been infected and millions have died. Characteristic of it is that it spreads quickly: from one person to another. The world finds itself in a war: a war in which there is only one enemy: the virus itself. Our immune systems were not ready for its attack. Yet still, science has worked wonders: scientists have within a short amo
Coronavirus: 128 Fatalities, but Only 696 New Cases Registered in Hungary
The death toll has risen to 10,853, while 209,852 people have made a recovery.
The number of active infections stands at 123,647, while there are 5,005 hospitalised Covid patients, 356 on a ventilator.
Altogether 25,532 people are in official home quarantine, and the number of tests carried out has risen to 2,860,814.
On November 10, lawmakers extended the government’s special powers by 90 days, allowing the government to suspend the application of some legislation, diverge from legal provisions and take other extraordinary measures by decree.
Since the registration period to receive the coronavirus vaccine started in Hungary, we have come across contradictory statements on whether this process is required to be eligible for vaccination. Although previously, government politicians said those who did not register would get further back in the line, according to the deputy chief medical officer of Budapest
Chief Medical Officer: New Vaccine Shipment for Another 39,000 People
Hungary is scheduled to receive a new shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine next Tuesday that will be sufficient to inoculate another 39,000 people, the chief medical officer has said.
Hungary will also take delivery of a smaller shipment of Moderna’s vaccine next week, Cecília Müller told an online press briefing of the operative body responsible for handling the epidemic, on Friday.
So far, 42,549 health-care workers have been inoculated and vaccinations are under way at Hungary’s four largest retirement homes, Müller said, adding that more elderly care homes will receive the vaccine over the weekend.