Five elderly Covid-19 patients, all with underlying illnesses, have died, while the number of registered coronavirus infections in Hungary has risen by 844 to 13.153 over the past 24 hours, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Monday morning.
The number of fatalities stands at 642, and 4,117 people have made a recovery.
There are 8,394 active infections and 287 Covid-19 patients are being treated in hospital, 16 on ventilators.
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Altogether 26,668 people are in official home quarantine and 549,211 tests have been carried out.
The site warned Hungarians to observe social distancing guidelines and hygiene regulations.
The government closed borders to foreigners from Sept 1, with certain exceptions, re-introducing border protection measures in force during the first wave of the epidemic.
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Detailed data on the more than 29 million confirmed cases worldwide and more than 920,000 deaths can be found here and here by country.
Featured photo illustration by Zoltán Balogh/MTI
