BUDAPEST/PRAGUE: Hungary's hospitals are under"extraordinary" pressure from rising coronavirus infections, its surgeon general said on Wednesday , as the country became a hotspot in the third wave of a pandemic that has hit Central Europe especially hard.
The region is also host to many large factories where remote work has not been possible and, this time round, governments have been reluctant to quickly impose a lockdown, fearing another blow to their economies after last year's recession. In Hungary, a country with a population of nearly 10 million, a total of 18,952 people have died of coronavirus.
A paramedic administers a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to a woman at the University Hospital in Bialystok, Poland, on Jan 4, 2021. "For some reason most of eastern Europe has failed in the fight against the pandemic," said sociologist Daniel Prokop, who has been tracking Czechs' behaviour through the pandemic.
People wearing protective masks amid the outbreak of coronavirus disease walk in front of the Palace of Culture and Science in the centre of Warsaw, Poland, on Feb 24, 2021.
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