Another 80,000 doses of Pfizer vaccines arrive in Hungary this year, with a total of 4.4 million doses of vaccines delivered to Hungary in 2020-2021, Pfizer Pharma Trade Ltd. said at Monday's online press conference. Krisztina Zsigmond, head of the company's vaccine business, said that globally, Pfizer will distribute 50 million doses of the vaccine […]
An eighty-page publication in Hungarian and English, richly illustrated with images, was published on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Hungarian Jazz Association. ‘30 Years of Jazz’ reviews the history of jazz and the association, gives an idea of the domestic institutional system and intellectual background of the genre, introduces Hungarian performers of […]
In addition to about two hundred pets, three African white lions and rare cats were born this year at the Nyíregyháza Zoo, which received approximately 400,000 visitors despite the coronavirus epidemic. Sóstó Zoo is situated in a distance of five kms from the city of Nyíregyháza, NE Hungary, in the holiday resort of Sóstó, where […]
According to the government's information website, 96 people have died of coronavirus complications in the last 24 hours, which means that there have been a total of 9,047 deaths related to the pandemic in Hungary, so far. By Sunday, the number of identified infections had risen by 698, with a total of 316,060 people now […]
The professional website total-waterpolo.com has named Hungary's three times Olympic champion Tibor Benedek as the best player of the 21st century in men's water polo. The decision was based on 40 expert votes and 50,000+ public votes to announce Tibor Benedek and American Maggie Steffens as the greatest among the timeless legends. In addition to […]
Adrienne Kertész, the chief physician of the infection control department of the South Pest Central Hospital, was the first to receive the coronavirus vaccination in Hungary. She was vaccinated on Saturday by chief infectologist János Szlávik. She said she had been waiting a long time to receive the vaccine, because that could decide whether she […]
The number of deaths registered in one day and the number of active patients also decreased compared to the previous day. Even together with 2610 new infections, the number of active infections in Hungary has decreased by 954 in the last 24 hours. Their number is currently 18,1342. In the epidemic, 104 people lost their […]
When looking back at it, 2020 won’t be considered a good year for the world but could turn out to be a fruitful one for a Hungarian scientist. A year ago, in December 2019, no one suspected that the just discovered ‘Chinese pneumonia’ cases would spread worldwide and ignite the COVID-19 epidemic caused by the […]
The coronavirus vaccine arrives in Hungary on December 26, the vaccination of healthcare workers will start the next day, the authorities announced this Thursday. The consignment of the first authorized coronavirus vaccine in Europe, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, is expected to cross the Hungarian border early Saturday morning, from where it will first arrive at the […]
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Locals at Somoskőújfalu, a village of just over 2,000 people, located northeast of Budapest at the Slovak border, created a small scale replica of their village from gingerbread for Christmas. In view of last year's great success, the village leadership again asked the local community again to make a 'gingerbread village'. The diligent hands again […]
Hungary has become the first European country where the authorities have granted authorisation to the emergency use of US drugmaker Eli Lilly's Covid-19 antibody drug bamlanivimab, the Hungarian Ministry of Human Resources said on Wednesday. As the state news agency MTI reports, the National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition (OGYEI) earlier this month approved the […]
The Hungarian pharmaceutical company Richter and the Belgian pharma firm Mithra strengthen their partnership with the signing of a license and supply agreement for the commercialization of a novel oral contraceptive to Latin America. Gedeon Richter Plc. and Estetra S.A, the wholly owned subsidiary of Mithra Pharmaceuticals, have announced that they extended their partnership and […]
The new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) was detected in another 1,894 Hungarian citizens, increasing the number of infected people identified in Hungary to 308,262. 154 patients died, so the number of deaths increased to 8,616, writes the related government site koronavirus.gov.hu. According to the report, the number of people recovered is also constantly growing and it […]
13-year-old Hungarian Zsóka Gaál finished second in the girls' under-14 category at the FIDE Online World Cadets & Youth Rapid Chess Championships. In Tuesday's final, the Hungarian teenager played the final against Eline Roebers of the Netherlands. The first match of the final was won by the Dutch girl with the second ending in a tie. […]
