Hungary has taken delivery of 6,000 ampoules of Russia’s Covid-19 vaccine, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Facebook. The vaccine shipment entered Hungary from Slovakia and will be transported to the National Public Health Centre under police guard, Szijjártó said.
Hungary will receive a total of 4.4 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in the 2020-2021 period, including 80,000 doses scheduled to arrive before the end of this year, representatives of Pfizer’s local unit have said.
According to the weather forecast, this week starts with windy and mild weather with about 10 Celsius in many parts of the country.
When we toasted the arrival of 2020, nobody knew what the new year had in store, and no one would have believed that 2020 would bring a pandemic.
Given the pandemic situation, “we will celebrate Christmas with more modesty and restraint” this year, but “a forced adjustment in our lives” may let us get closer “to discovering the genuine secret of Christmas”, the head of the Hungarian Reformed Church’s synod said in his message on Thursday, marking Christmas Eve.
Christmas this year must be celebrated “in a restrained and quiet way” but “an involuntary halt of life could provide us more time for ourselves and for other people, and doing so may allow more time for God, too”, Bishop Tamás Fabiny, the head of the Hungarian Lutheran Church, told MTI on Thursday, Christmas Eve.
Christmas is a holiday celebrating hope and consolation, which is “demonstrated most clearly in difficult times”, Cardinal Péter Erdő, the head of the Hungarian Catholic Church, told MTI on Thursday.
Fully 96 Covid patients, generally elderly and suffering from an underlying illness, died over the past 24 hours, while 698 infected were officially registered, bringing the total number of infections to 316,060, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Sunday.
According to M1, vaccination of healthcare workers against coronavirus will start on December 26 at the South Pest Central Hospital and then at the Semmelweis University Clinic in the afternoon.
The Tranzit Group, which deals with the breeding and processing of geese, ducks and chickens, has embarked on a HUF 20 billion investment program, an organic continuation of the recently completed 15 billion project, the CEO of the Debrecen-based group of companies told MTI.
