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Thirty-seven patients died of Covid over the past 24 hours, while 4,041 new coronavirus infections were registered in Hungary, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Friday.
The number of active infections has risen to 31,544, while hospitals are treating 2,130 Covid patients, 230 of whom need respiratory assistance.
Since the first outbreak, 863,419 infections have been registered, while fatalities have risen to 30,780. Fully 797,910 people have made a recovery.
So far 5,950,259 people have received a first jab, while 5,731,651 have been fully vaccinated. Fully 1,191,000 Hungarians have received a booster jab.
There are 24,231 people in official quarantine, while 7,371,187 tests have been officially carried out.
The government announced on Thursday that employers were given the right to require vaccination against Covid-19 as a precondition of employment in order to ensure workers’ safety. The state, as an employer, will also apply the measure, and mayors will have the right to introduce the requirement at local councils. Mask-wearing will also be mandatory on public transport again from Nov. 1, and a visitor ban is also being introduced at hospitals.
Detailed data on the more than 246 million confirmed cases worldwide, more than 4,9 million deaths, and more than 223 million recoveries can be found here and here by country.
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