UK virus mutation not identified in Hungary, says medical officer

The mutation of the coronavirus that originates from the UK has not yet been identified in Hungary, the chief medical officer said on Wednesday.

Cecilia Müller also said that almost 21,000 health-care staff have been inoculated against the virus so far at 25 vaccination points. She told a press conference of the operative body responsible for handling the epidemic that the network of immunisation points will be expanded to more city hospitals, and GPs are planned to get involved in the campaign, she added.

Following health-care employees, social workers and residents of care homes will get vaccinated with the help of mobile vaccination teams, she said.

Some 39,000 doses of vaccine arrived in Hungary on Tuesday and total supplies received so far are sufficient to inoculate 78,000 people, she added. Further shipments of the vaccine are expected to arrive weekly starting next week, Müller said.