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Altogether 78 patients died of a Covid-related illness over the past 24 hours, while 17,869 new coronavirus infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Friday.
The number of active infections has risen to 225,801, while hospitals are treating 3,463 Covid-19 patients, 145 of whom are intubated on a ventilator.
Since the first outbreak, 41,229 deaths have been recorded, while 1,508,358 have been registered with the virus. Fully 1,241,328 people have made a recovery.
So far 6,351,476 people have received a first jab, while 6,089,784 have been fully vaccinated. Fully 3,594,529 Hungarians have received a booster jab.
There are 29,596 people in official quarantine, while 9,936,724 tests have been officially carried out.
The website said the omicron variant was spreading rapidly.
The government re-introduced compulsory mask-wearing in enclosed spaces from November 20.
Detailed data on the more than 367 million confirmed cases worldwide, more than 5,6 million deaths, and more than 290 million recoveries can be found here and here by country.
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