Coronavirus in Hungary: 11 patients die, 3,535 registered cases

Eleven elderly patients have died in the past 24 hours, all of whom had an underlying illness, bringing the total number of deaths to 462, while the number of registered infections rose by 26 to 3,535, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Monday morning.

Fully 1,400 patients have made a recovery, while the number of active infections has gone up to 1,673.

Currently 568 coronavirus patients are being treated in hospital, 46 of whom are on a ventilator.

Altogether 10,388 people are in official home quarantine.

Fully 137,243 tests have been carried out.

Budapest has the most registered cases (1,681), followed by Pest County (476) and Fejer County (359). Bekes County (11) has the fewest.

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Latest count of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide at 0000 GMT, May 18

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 0000 GMT, May 18 – Xinhua reports.

Country Confirmed Cases

World 4,710,614

U.S. 1,486,376
Russia 281,752
Britain 244,995
Brazil 241,080
Spain 230,698
Italy 225,435
France 179,693
Germany 176,369
Turkey 149,435
China 84,487

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Source: MTI/Xinhua