“Vaccination, vaccination, vaccination. It depends on when we can restart our economies," Viktor Orbán wrote on his social media page on Saturday. Several professionals and politicians, such as the National Chief Medical Officer Cecília Müller, Széchenyi Prize-winning Hungarian doctor Dr Merkely Béla, as well as the prime minister's representative Zsolt Nyitrai and László Csizmadia, the founding president of CÖF-CÖKA, encourage everyone to get vaccinated, especially young people aged 16-18 . They can still book an appointment www.eeszt.gov.hu .
Until Wednesday, 90,000 young people between the ages of 16 and 18 can make an appointment to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, the national chief medical officer announced at the online press conference of the operative group responsible for the prevention of the coronavirus epidemic on Tuesday.
Cecília Müller said that 84,000 of the 193,000 people in the age group had registered by Friday midnight, but another 6,000 "woke up a little late" and registered on Saturday and Sunday. It was decided that they will also be allowed to receive the vaccination from Thursday, they will receive an SMS today to book an appointment online.
80 percent of those registered have already booked an appointment, "you can see the youthful momentum, they don't speculate much," he said.
He added: those over 18 can apply for Sinopharm and AstraZeneca vaccines, and family doctors will receive Janssen and Moderna vaccines this week, in addition to the Chinese one.
Source: magyarhirlap.hu
