BUDAPEST (Reuters) – The number of new coronavirus infections in Hungary is stagnating but the number of COVID-19 patients in hospitals is still “very high”, the surgeon general said, as the country began to gradually reopen its economy on Wednesday.
Surgeon General Cecilia Muller also told a briefing that Hungarian authorities would follow guidance from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) regarding AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine, but there has not been an official statement yet.
EMA is currently investigating whether there is any link between AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine and rare blood clots, and it plans to make an announcement at 1400 GMT.
(Reporting by Krisztina Than and Anita Komuves; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
