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82 patients died of Covid over the past 24 hours, while 5,270 new coronavirus infections were registered in Hungary, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Wednesday.
The number of active infections has risen to 101,457, while hospitals are treating 3,090Covid patients, 307 of whom are on ventilators.
Since the first outbreak, the number of fatalities has risen to 39,599, while 1,269,979 infections have been registered. Fully 1,128,923 people have made a recovery.
So far 6,269,955 people have received a first jab, while 5,990,568 have been fully vaccinated. Fully 3,191,997 Hungarians have received a booster jab.
There are 14,894 people in official quarantine, while 9,229,190 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 295 million confirmed cases worldwide, more than 5,4 million deaths, and more than 256 million recoveries can be found here and here by country.
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