At the end of January, there was even a day when 76.5 percent of Covid-19 tests came back positive.Continue reading
Altogether 234 patients died of a Covid-related illness over the weekend, while 33,716 new coronavirus infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Monday.
The number of active infections has increased to 231,490, while hospitals are treating 4,919 Covid-19 patients, 168 of whom are intubated on a ventilator.
Since the first outbreak, 41,975 deaths have been recorded, while 1,650,562 have been registered with the virus. Fully 1,347,698 people have made a recovery.
So far 6,374,293 people have received a first jab, while 6,120,914 have been fully vaccinated. Fully 3,735,329 Hungarians have received a booster jab.
There are 22,859 people in official quarantine, while 10,320,134 tests have been officially carried out.
The government re-introduced compulsory mask-wearing in enclosed spaces from November 20.
Detailed data on the more than 396 million confirmed cases worldwide, more than 5,7 million deaths, and more than 308 million recoveries can be found here and here by country.
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