Virus researcher Miklós Rusvai told the evening news program of the most popular Hungarian commercial TV channel RTL Klub that the rapid spread of the virus could lead to the fifth wave of the virus infection peaking next week.
There is a slight rise in the hereditary level of the coronavirus in wastewater again, according to the National Center for Public Health. Virus researcher Miklós Rusvai says the rapid spread of omicron could peak as early as next week, but the fifth wave could last as long as April, he said on the news program.
According to the epidemiological modelling expert at ELTE university in Budapest, the Hungarian capital could be up to a week away from the peak.
The number of new infections has broken records this week, while the number of deaths and people on ventilators has fallen.
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