More than half thousand Hungarians in hospital due to COVID

Fully 866 new infections were confirmed last week, while there were 51 fatalities in connection with Covid-19, the Coronavirus Press Centre said on Wednesday.

The number of active infections stands at 8,597, they said. Currently, 523 coronavirus patients are being treated in hospital, 61 intubated on a ventilator. Altogether 6,421,176 people have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, with 6,207,670 having received a second jab, 3,904,179 a third, and 418,600 a fourth. The number of registered infections since the start of the pandemic has reached 2,191,200 in Hungary, while there have been 48,629 deaths. Fully 2,133,974 people have made a recovery.

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Source: MTI