Coronavirus – Hungary has the highest mortality rate in the region
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The first fatal incidents of the coronavirus reached Hungary as well. Day by day, the number of people with the infection increases, and unfortunately, some of them do not survive the disease.
444.hu reported that on Sunday (March 22), two Hungarian citizens died of the virus, both women 65 and 75 years old. In Poland, a 37-year-old woman and 43-year-old man passed away, and the Czech Republic also had its first loss where a 95-year-old man died. In Romania, three patients died while in Serbia and Slovenia two.
In Austria, sixteen people lost their lives in one day.
According to official data on the weekend, Hungary has the least infected patients (187) after Ukraine, while all the nearby European countries have more. In Austria 3,564, in the Czech Republic, 1,120 and Poland 631 patients have the coronavirus. It is hard to estimate the exact number because besides the officially registered patients; there are many more people who do not show symptoms but might have the virus in their systems.