In Hungary, the number of vaccinated people is 6,319,434, of which 6,059,382 received the second, and 3,417,089 already received the third booster vaccination. In the last three days, 21,219 new infected people were confirmed, increasing the number of identified infected people to 1,348,233 since the start of the epidemic. 270, mostly elderly, chronic patients have died in the past three days, bringing the number of deaths to 40,507, koronavirus.gov.hu ​​announced the aggregated data from the weekend on Monday.

It was written on the government portal: the number of people who have recovered is constantly increasing, currently 1,169,775, and the number of active infected people has risen to 137,951. 2,630 coronavirus patients are being cared for in the hospital, 228 of them are on ventilators.

Attention was drawn to the fact that the omicron virus variant is already spreading strongly and increasing the number of infected people, and the serious course of the disease can be prevented by taking the booster vaccine.

Tens of thousands of people were vaccinated again during the vaccination campaign held in recent days, the vaccination campaign will continue this week on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, they wrote.

The fourth vaccination can now be requested. The quarantine period was reduced to seven days, the statement said.

MTI

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