The mayors of five districts of Budapest have turned to the minister of human resources with the demand that only vaccines approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) be used in their districts. At an online briefing on Sunday, Erzsébet Gy.
The first shots of the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in Hungary have been administered in Budapest, koronavirus.gov.hu reported.
Zoltán Kovács, the state secretary for international communications and relations, warned against politicising the fight against the coronavirus pandemic in a letter to the editor of Dutch daily De Telegraaf in response to a recent op-ed published in the paper criticising Hungary’s decision to use Russia’s Sputnik V Covid jab in its vaccination campaign.
Ferenc Gyurcsány, leader of the opposition Democratic Coalition, said in a keynote speech on Saturday that the decision by Hungary’s opposition parties to cooperate was of “historic significance”. The former Socialist prime minister said: “The best thing to happen over the past year is the birth of a patriotic, European, democratic opposition to the Orbán […]
According to Met Hír, record lowest temperature has been measured in a dolina on Bükk Plateau in the morning of 13th February, 2021.
Air quality has deteriorated across Hungary due to a high concentration of airborne particulates, the National Public Health Centre (NNK) said.
Fully 99 Covid patients, generally elderly and suffering from an underlying illness, died over the past 24 hours, while 1,860 new infections were officially registered, bringing the total number of infected to 383,735, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Friday.
By late May and early June, fully 6.8 million people could be vaccinated, Orbán said in his regular interview to public broadcaster Kossuth Radio, This would mean Hungary would have 3.5 million more people inoculated than a country with a similar size and population.
If Hungary can begin using China’s Covid-19 vaccine then all those who have registered for a shot can be inoculated by Easter, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said.
At a government meeting on Wednesday, it was revealed that the country managed to curb the second wave thanks to consistent, unchanged rules introduced from 11 November, but the number of people infected has not been declining for weeks. That is why it is still important to follow the rules – said Gergely Gulyás.
