Coronavirus in Hungary: One patient dies, registered infections up by 118

A 74-year-old Covid-19 patient has died, while the number of registered coronavirus infections in Hungary has risen by 118 to 6,257 over the past 24 hours, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Tuesday morning.

The number of fatalities has increased to 616, and 3,821 people have made a recovery.

There are 1,820 active infections and 96 Covid-19 patients are being treated in hospital, seven on ventilators.

Fully 10,124 people are in official home quarantine and 429,942 tests have been carried out.

The site warned Hungarians to observe social distancing guidelines and hygiene regulations.

The government has decided to close borders to foreigners starting today, with certain exceptions, re-introducing border protection measures in force during the first wave of the epidemic.

Under the decision Hungarians returning from abroad will have to self-quarantine for 14 days, or until they produce two negative tests taken two days apart.

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Most infections have been registered in Budapest (2,762), followed by Pest County (886) and the counties of Fejér (432), Komárom-Esztergom (336) and Zala (287). Békés County has the fewest infections (26).

Latest count of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide

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, Sept. 1.

Country Confirmed Cases

World 25,484,767

U.S. 6,030,587
Brazil 3,908,272
India 3,691,166
Russia 992,402
Peru 647,166
South Africa 627,041
Colombia 615,094
Mexico 599,560
Spain 462,858

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Source: MTI/Xinhua