Orbán: Vaccinations Set to Start in Late December
Hungary will begin inoculating people with a Covid-19 vaccine on December 27 or 28, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a radio interview on Friday.
The first vaccine doses arriving in the country will be enough to inoculate 35,000 people, the prime minister told public broadcaster Kossuth Radio, adding that health-care workers will be the first to be vaccinated.
The vaccine will be administered to them at the Budapest South Pest Hospital and county hospitals, Orbán said.
He asked health-care workers to get the vaccine in as large numbers as possible, adding, however, that “this is in no way a general desire at the moment”.
Coronavirus: 171 Fatalities, Infections Up by 5,415
Fully 171 Covid patients, mostly elderly and suffering from an underlying illness, died over the past 24 hours in Hungary, while 5,415 infections were registered, bringing the total over the course of the pandemic to 265,003, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Thursday.
The death toll stands at 6,451 while 77,362 have made a recovery.
The number of active infections stands at 181,190, while 7,869 patients are in hospital, 645 on ventilators.
Fully 43,923 people are in official home quarantine, while the number of tests carried out has risen to 2,216,880.
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.