Taking into account the domestic epidemiological situation of monkeypox, the amount of available vaccine and international recommendations, the National Public Health Center (NNK) consulted with the Infectiology Section of the Professional College and the National STD Center and developed a vaccination recommendation for the use of monkeypox vaccine, they said. The monkeypox vaccine is available […]
Hungary receives 2,560 doses of the vaccine against monkeypox, which is sufficient to vaccinate 1,280 people, the National Public Health Center (NNK) told the state news agency MTI this Tuesday. The vaccine consists of two doses, which will be administered one month apart. They added that the vaccine, which is available in limited quantities, will […]
The first shipment of AstraZeneca vaccine, authorized by the European Medicines Agency, arrived in Budapest from Oxford this Saturday. The consignment placed at the Budapest site of the pharmaceutical wholesale company Hungaropharma will be enough to vaccinate more than 20,000 people. This vaccine is planned to be given to chronic patients under 60 years of […]
This Tuesday, the first shipment of Moderna vaccine arrived in Hungary shortly after 10 o'clock. A van with the vaccine shipment, accompanied by police escort, left Belgium at 4 pm on Monday afternoon and arrived to the Budapest site of Hungaropharma pharmaceutical wholesale distribution company. The consignment, which contains 7,200 vaccines enough to vaccinate 3,600 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Hungarian health authorities have given green light to the clinical trial of a coronavirus drug manufactured by local pharmaceutical company Richter Gedeon. The drug containing the antiviral agent remdesivir may thus become available to Hungarian patients. Remdesivir is the most effective drug known to date in the treatment of coronavirus infections. Hungary’s largest drug maker, […]
Stagnant health care and curfews are the most worrying for Hungarians about the coronavirus, yet, only a quarter of respondents would ask for the vaccine, and 40% would certainly not inject themselves, a new survey says. 80% of those surveyed fear a second wave of the virus because they only have enough financial reserves left […]
According to Hungarians, there will be a vaccine against the coronavirus, and the majority believe that it will be available to everyone in a year at the earliest. 55% of the population would most likely self-administer an approved vaccine. The results of a national representative research commissioned by the Association of Innovative Pharmaceutical Manufacturers (AIPM) […]
