August 20 long weekend: six deaths, 340 new infections

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Six patients died over the weekend, while 340 new coronavirus infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Monday.

So far 5,699,251 people have received a first jab, while 5,502,546 have been fully vaccinated. Hospitals are treating 73 Covid patients, 10 of whom need respiratory assistance.

There are 865 people in official quarantine,

while 6,492,441 tests have been officially carried out.

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Since the first outbreak, 811,121 infections have been registered, while fatalities have risen to 30,052. Fully 771,530 people have made a recovery. So far, most infections have been registered in Budapest and Pest County, followed by the counties of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Győr-Moson-Sopron and Hajdú-Bihar.

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Meanwhile, as a sign of the Hungarian economic recovery after the pandemic, home rental rates in Hungary rose by an annual 1.4 percent in July, climbing for the second month in a row after falling for more than a year, data compiled by the Central Statistical Office (KSH) from listings site Ingatlan.com show.

Rental rates in the capital edged 0.2 percent lower in July. Rates there have dropped with little exception since the start of the pandemic. The monthly rental rate for a flat in the capital averaged 152,000 forints (EUR 434) in the first half of the year. In a month-on-month comparison, home rental rates rose by 2.7 percent countrywide and