An appointment for the Sputnik V vaccine can be booked, the national chief medical officer said at an online press conference by the operative board responsible for controlling the coronavirus epidemic.
There was no room for the woman because of covid-19 patients, so – although she was taken to the hospital six times in her last months – the 43-year-old woman from Veresegyháh was always sent home to her family. She eventually died at her home.
On Friday, the price of petrol and diesel per liter will increase again by HUF 5-5 gross. Thus, the average price in the second half of the week is as follows:
Police have raised charges against a suspected virus sceptic for spreading false information in connection with coronavirus, a National Police Headquarters spokesman said.
The number of births increased in Hungary in 2020 but the number of deaths outpaced this markedly, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said, noting the heavy toll left by the coronavirus epidemic.
Opposition Párbeszéd has criticised the government’s 2022 draft budget, calling it an “election budget” that would benefit “the usual contractors” involved in investment projects rather than the Hungarian people.
Fully 128 patients, generally elderly with co-morbidities, died over the past 24 hours, while 1,130 new infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Wednesday.
The Sinopharm vaccine produces many hundred times the number of antibodies after two jabs than that after someone is infected by the virus, the rector of Budapest’s Semmelweis University said, rejecting news reports that a third dose might be needed in certain cases.
A closed meeting of the national security committee, which would have heard government office representatives on the planned Budapest campus of the Chinese Fudan University and on the recent cyber attack against government vaccine registration sites, among other issues, lacked quorum on Tuesday as government party lawmakers failed to attend.
The social safety net has been strengthening in Hungary and the number of Hungarians living in deep poverty has been continually falling since 2012, the daily Magyar Nemzet said.
