One Covid-19 patient who was elderly and suffering from underlying illnesses has died, while the number of registered coronavirus infections in Hungary has risen by 718 to 10,909 over the past 24 hours, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Friday morning. This is the largest single-day increase since the epidemic began to spread.
The number of fatalities stands at 631, and 4,014 people have made a recovery.
There are 6,264 active infections and 259 Covid-19 patients are being treated in hospital, 12 on ventilators.
Altogether 25,117 people are in official home quarantine and 517,222 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.
Most infections have been registered in Budapest (4,735), followed by Pest County (1,568) and the counties of Fejér (630), Hajdú-Bihar (410), Komárom-Esztergom (407) and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg (375). Békés County has the fewest infections (68).
Detailed data on the more than 28 million confirmed cases worldwide and more than 900,000 deaths can be found here and here by country.
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