Unfortunately, the bad suspicions seem to be confirmed, we are in the rising branch of the third wave. the latest data , 8,312 new coronavirus infections were found in the last 24 hours, and 172, mostly elderly, chronic patients, died, bringing the death toll to 16,497. 911 is on ventilators.
GPs received the AstraZeneca vaccine this week and the Operative Tribe has asked them to continue vaccinating registered elderly people who have not yet been vaccinated.
Hospital vaccination points have Szputnyik and Pfizer vaccines, which are also used to vaccinate registered elderly people sent by general practitioners .
As is known, the Operative Tribe and the vaccination work group modified the vaccination strategy, according to which the second dose of Pfizer will be administered 35 days apart instead of the previous 21 days, AstraZeneca 12 weeks apart instead of the previous 4 weeks, and from now on it will be used over 60 years may.
UPDATE BASED ON GOVERNMENT INFORMATION
Minister Gergely Gulyás gave the following updated information
- currently 3,200,000 people are registered for vaccination
- approx. 1,800,000 more registrants would be needed for 70 percent vaccination (the so-called herd immunity can be achieved at 60-70%)
- unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of elderly people have not yet registered. National Chief Medical Officer Cecília Müller will send them a separate letter
- without Eastern vaccines, half a million fewer people would be vaccinated now
- the government makes the vaccine agreements with Russia and China public and wants the European Commission to do the same with the contracts regarding Western vaccines
