Coronavirus – Seven patients die, 3,867 infected in Hungary

Seven patients have died in the past 24 hours, all of them elderly and suffering from underlying illnesses, bringing the total number of fatalities to 524, while novel coronavirus infections in Hungary have increased by 26 to 3,867, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Saturday morning.

Fully 2,142 hospitalised patients have made a recovery.

The number of active infections has fallen to 1,201. Forty-one percent of the active cases, 59 percent of the fatalities and 49 percent of full recoveries are in Budapest, the site said.

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Fully 414 Covid-19 patients are undergoing treatment in hospital, 22 of whom are on ventilators.

Altogether 11,408 are in official home quarantine. The number of tests carried out stands at 183,562.

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 (1,838 people) has the highest number of infections, followed by Pest County (550), Fejer County (370) and Komarom-Esztergom (259). Bekes County (11) has the lowest number.

Source: MTI