Today, Viktor Orbán talked about the fact that we have reached 3 million vaccinated people (with the first dose of vaccine), and at 3.5 million – maybe next week – restaurants’ terraces can be opened and terrace fees charged to caterers will be abolished.
EMA continues to monitor very rare blood clots with low blood platelets that occurred after vaccination with Vaxzevria (formerly COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca).
The first shipment of Janssen vaccines arrived in Hungary on 13 April 2021.
Fully 285 generally elderly patients with co-morbidities died over the past 24 hours, while 3,597 new infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Wednesday.
As announced last week, EMA’s safety committee (PRAC) is reviewing very rare cases of unusual blood clots that occurred in the United States following the use of Janssen’s COVID-19 vaccine. The type of blood clot reported, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST), occurred in most cases in combination with low levels of blood platelets (thrombocytopenia).
285, mostly elderly, chronic patients died, and another 3,597 Hungarian citizens were diagnosed with the coronavirus infection, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Wednesday, highlighting that 3,037,023 people have been vaccinated in Hungary so far, 1,290,709 of them got the second dose of the vaccine.
The opposition LMP has called on the government to keep primary schools and kindergartens closed, given the persistent high number of coronavirus infections.
Fully 87% of teachers would prefer not to return to the classroom on April 19, while 54% said they would obey the instruction to do so, according to teacher union PSZ, citing a fresh survey by 21 Kutatóközpont.
Fully 88.7% of teachers who have registered for the coronavirus vaccine have been inoculated, Human Resources Minister Miklós Kásler said.
So far, 4.11 million Hungarians have registered for coronavirus vaccinations, and 64% of them have received at least their first jab, the state secretary heading the central team in charge of the vaccination programme said.
