Coronavirus – Hungary Covid-19 deaths top 500

Six patients have died in the past 24 hours, all of them elderly and suffering from underlying illnesses, bringing the total number of fatalities to 505, while novel coronavirus infections in Hungary have increased by 22 to 3,793, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Wednesday morning.

Fully 1,856 hospitalised patients have made a recovery.

The number of active infections has fallen to 1,432.

Fully 430 Covid-19 patients are undergoing treatment in hospital, 25 of whom are on ventilators.

Altogether 11,616 are in official home quarantine. The number of tests carried out stands at 166,960.

The government says the aim is to steadily resume normal life based on a strict schedule, and it calls on citizens to follow general precautions.

From Monday, kindergartens opened in the country outside Budapest but schools will continue to teach online until the end of the school year.

The government submitted on Tuesday a bill to parliament on rescinding its emergency powers.

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Budapest (1,805 people) has the highest number of infections, followed by Pest County (535), Fejér County (369) and Zala County (247). Békés County (11) has the lowest number.

Latest count of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide at 0500 GMT, May 27

The following are the latest updates on the COVID-19 global confirmed cases in hardest-hit countries by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University at 0500 GMT, May 27 – Xinhua reports.

Country Confirmed Cases

World 5,591,067

U.S. 1,681,212
Brazil 391,222
Russia 362,342
Britain 266,599
Spain 236,259
Italy 230,555
France 182,847
Germany 181,200
Turkey 158,762
China 84,544

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Source: MTI