According to a Hungarian GP practicing in Scotland, several shortcomings of the Hungarian healthcare, including care planning, are behind the tragic number of deaths in the country.Continue reading
Altogether 97 patients died of a Covid-related illness over the past 24 hours, while 8,883 new coronavirus infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Wednesday.
The number of active infections has decreased to 209,035, while hospitals are treating 5,166 Covid-19 patients, 203 of whom are intubated on a ventilator.
Since the first outbreak, 42,851 deaths have been recorded, while 1,730,366 have been registered with the virus. Fully 1,478,480 people have made a recovery.
So far 6,384,088 people have received a first jab, while 6,144,019 have been fully vaccinated. Fully 3,773,694 Hungarians have received a booster jab and 160,566 have also received the fourth dose.
There are 18,079 people in official quarantine, while 10,538,698 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 416 million confirmed cases worldwide, more than 5,8 million deaths, and more than 339 million recoveries can be found here and here by country.
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