Brief moment of relief – Hungarian covid infections and deaths decrease

Fully 194 generally elderly patients with co-morbidities died over the past 24 hours, while 10,625 new infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Sunday.

Altogether 1,563,242 people have been vaccinated in Hungary, 474,891 of whom have received a second shot, the portal said.

The number of active infections has risen to 183,336, while hospitals are caring for 10,652 Covid patients, 1273 of whom need respiratory assistance.

More than 50 thousand people are in official home quarantine, and the number of tests carried out is more than 4.2 million.

Ever since the first outbreak, 571,596 infections have been registered, while fatalities have risen to 18,262. Fully 369,998 people have made a recovery.

So far, most infections have been registered in Budapest (108,918) and Pest County (79,015), followed by the counties of Győr-Moson-Sopron (33,008), Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén (32,012) and Hajdú-Bihar (30,732). Tolna County has the fewest infections (12,386).

If we calculate the number of infections per number of population in the different counties, the results are different. In that case, Budapest is in the middle of the list while Nógrád, Győr-Moson-Sopron, Komárom-Esztergom, and Somogy counties are leading it.

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Coronavirus-related restrictions extended until March 29

Hungary closed most shops, services, kindergartens and primary schools for the next month in an effort to curb the third wave of coronavirus infections. MORE INFO HERE AND HERE.

Shops, with the exception of grocery stores, pharmacies, petrol stations, drugstores, tobacco shops, shops selling tools for “spring gardening”, pet food and fodder shops, and markets, will have to be closed, and services will have to stop, with the exception of private healthcare, social care, financial, postal, and car repair services, suspended between March 8 and 29.

Kindergartens and primary schools will be closed from March 8 until April 7. Gyms will continue to be closed for two weeks, but licenced athletes will be allowed to train and compete behind closed doors. Parks will be allowed to stay open and outdoor sports will also be allowed for activities in which people can maintain a safe distance of 1.5 metres.

The government asks employers to ensure that their employees can work from home wherever possible, particularly in the case of those with children.

Mask-wearing remains mandatory outdoors.

Hungary would impose tighter controls on its borders, adding, however, that freight and transit traffic will not be restricted. Wage subsidies and tax cuts introduced for the hospitality industry will be expanded for the period of the lockdown to all sectors forced to shut down by the new measures.

Source: koronavirus.gov.hu