BUDAPEST, May 13 (Xinhua) -- Hungary started the vaccination program of 16-18 year-old teenagers on Thursday, as the Hungarian government was working on new easing measures.

"According to the plans, the vaccination of teenagers between 16 to 18 years of age started on Thursday at the vaccination points of designated hospitals," the Hungarian government informed on its official site.

Some 84,000 of the nearly 200,000 members of the age group have previously registered to be vaccinated, and they will be vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine in the framework of a campaign ending on next Tuesday, according to the government.

More than 5 million Hungarians have registered for the free and voluntary vaccination against COVID-19, and more than 80 percent of them have already been inoculated.

Hungarians currently have access to vaccines from Pfizer-BioNtech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Sputnik V, Sinopharm and Janssen.

"We will reach 5 million vaccinated people in the week of May 24," Gergely Gulyas, the head of the Prime Minister's Office, said at a press conference on Thursday, adding that at its session next week Wednesday, the government would review the next step of easing measures.

"What is already certain is that big weddings will be allowed again as of May 28, independently of the number of inoculated people, but large funerals will be probably linked to the reaching of the 5 million threshold," said Gulyas.

Schools have been opened since May 12, and the majority of shops and services have been opened since the beginning of May, but only those had been vaccinated could use indoor facilities.

Gulyas also said that the government was in talks with several countries on mutual recognition of vaccination certificates. Such deals have been already signed with some countries, such as Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey.

The government also allows the organization of summer camps for children to start from June. Enditem

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