In the coming days, relatively low infection rates are expected due to the autumn school holidays, but after that, the number of infected people could increase dramatically, epidemiologist Gábor Vattay said.Continue reading
123 patients died of Covid over the past 24 hours, while 4,588 new coronavirus infections were registered in Hungary, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Tuesday.
The number of active infections has risen to 71,799, while hospitals are treating 4,522 Covid patients, 452 of whom need respiratory assistance.
Since the first outbreak, the number of fatalities has risen to 31,521, while 914,586 infections have been registered. Fully 811,266 people have made a recovery.
So far 5,977,908 people have received a first jab, while 5,757,501 have been fully vaccinated. Fully 1,397,000 Hungarians have received a booster jab.
There are 27,751 people in official quarantine, while 7,647,898 tests have been officially carried out.
The government announced last week that employers were being 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 has also been made mandatory on public transport again from Nov. 1, and a visitor ban is also being introduced at hospitals.
Detailed data on the more than 251 million confirmed cases worldwide, more than 5 million deaths, and more than 227 million recoveries can be found here and here by country.
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