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Coronavirus situation worsens: further restrictions to be expected?
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The spread of the virus seems to be accelerating continuously in Hungary. In spring, the number of infections remained much lower, but the government closed almost everything to stop the epidemic. Now, it seems that they wait because young people get infected whose symptoms are much less dangerous, and they do not want an economic breakdown. But how long it is worth to protect the slowly increasing economic growth instead of implementing stricter measures?
According to infostart.hu, Béla Merkely, the rector of the Semmelweis University, said in a Monday interview that six different vaccines look very promising and he thinks that by the
end of this fall at least one of them will get a green light even in Hungary.
He added that probably the endangered and the older people would get it first, but he highlighted the importance of the vaccination of the teachers and the workers of the social sector, too.
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He said that the vaccine would not be brand new because experts utilise already known technologies to make it while using a different genetic material. The only exception is the American one which does not infect but helps the immune system to produce antibodies. He said that provided experts would be successful with the latter
it would be much easier to create a vaccine against a new virus in the future.
Professor Merkely said in an interview in ATV before that there can be 100 thousand infected in Hungary. Therefore, he would make it compulsory to wear face masks to reduce the reproduction rate. He added that the numbers might blow in 2-3 weeks.