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69 patients died of Covid over the past 24 hours, while 3,382 new coronavirus infections were registered in Hungary, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Tuesday.
The number of active infections has risen to 113,160, while hospitals are treating 2,932 Covid patients, 274 of whom are on ventilators.
Since the first outbreak, the number of fatalities has risen to 40,016, while 1,300,994 infections have been registered. Fully 1,147,818 people have made a recovery.
So far 6,294,707 people have received a first jab, while 6,033,675 have been fully vaccinated. Fully 3,292,175 Hungarians have received a booster jab.
There are 25,978 people in official quarantine, while 9,367,973 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 311 million confirmed cases worldwide, more than 5,5 million deaths, and more than 260 million recoveries can be found here and here by country.
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