According to a Hungarian GP practicing in Scotland, several shortcomings of the Hungarian healthcare, including care planning, are behind the tragic number of deaths in the country.Continue reading
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus caused 98 percent of all infections last week, Hungary’s chief medical officer said on Thursday, and called on Hungarians to take the third jab to bolster protection, which she said waned four months after the second jab.
Cecília Müller told state news channel M1 that the “stealth” subvariant of omicron, which is more difficult to detect than other subvariants, is more infectious than other subvariants but its clinical symptoms are similar.
Meanwhile, trace amounts of the coronavirus in waste water, an indicator of trends of the epidemic in the coming weeks, stagnated last week, Müller said. The method was developed by Hungary’s National Public Health Centre (NNK), and the WHO is recommending it for use in other countries, Müller said.
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