Coronavirus - Gulyas: Elderly set to be vaccinated by Easter)

Hungary's seniors will receive their coronavirus shots by Easter "depending on the number of those registered", the prime minister's chief of staff told a regular press briefing on Thursday. Gergely Gulyas said the elderly were the age group with the highest ratio of people who have registered for the jab, adding, however that several hundred thousand of them were still unregistered. They will be contacted in a letter encouraging them to follow suit, he said, and suggested that "vaccination is the only tool to rid ourselves of the pandemic".