At the end of January, there was even a day when 76.5 percent of Covid-19 tests came back positive.Continue reading
Altogether 105 patients died of a Covid-related illness over the past 24 hours, while 16,435 new coronavirus infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Friday.
The number of active infections has decreased to 227,407, while hospitals are treating 4,588 Covid-19 patients, 168 of whom are intubated on a ventilator.
Since the first outbreak, 41,741 deaths have been recorded, while 1,616,846 have been registered with the virus. Fully 1,347,698 people have made a recovery.
So far 6,369,089 people have received a first jab, while 6,111,632 have been fully vaccinated. Fully 3,712,974 Hungarians have received a booster jab.
There are 25,718 people in official quarantine, while 10,207,444 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 388 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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