Coronavirus – Registered infections exceed 4,000 in Hungary

One elderly patient has died in the past 24 hours, with an underlying illness, bringing the total number of Covid-19 fatalities to 546, while registered novel coronavirus infections in Hungary have increased by 18 to 4,008, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Sunday morning.

Fully 2,279 hospitalised patients have made a recovery. The number of active infections stands at 1,183. Forty-one percent of the active cases, 59 percent of the fatalities and 48 percent of full recoveries are in Budapest, the site said.

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Fully 386 Covid-19 patients are undergoing treatment in hospital, 21 of whom are on ventilators.

Altogether 9,916 are in official home quarantine. The number of tests carried out stands at 210,202.

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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.

Budapest (1,903 people) has the highest number of infections, followed by Pest County (582), Fejer County (374) and Komarom-Esztergom (283). Bekes County (11) has the lowest number.

Source: MTI