Coronavirus – Six patients die, 3,473 registered cases in Hungary
Six elderly patients have died in the past 24 hours, all of whom had an underlying illness, bringing the total number of deaths to 448, while the number of registered infections rose by 56 to 3,473, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Saturday morning.
Fully 1,371 patients have made a recovery, while the number of active infections has fallen to 1,654. Currently 570 coronavirus patients are being treated in hospital, 45 of whom are on a ventilator. Altogether 10,742 people are in official home quarantine.
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Fully 131,429 tests have been carried out.
Budapest has the most registered cases (1,655), followed by Pest County (467) and Fejer County (355). Bekes County (11) has the fewest.
Latest count of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide
- World 4,542,910
- U.S. 1,443,188
- Russia 262,843
- Britain 238,004
- Spain 230,183
- Italy 223,885
- Brazil 220,291
- France 179,630
- Germany 175,233
- Turkey 146,457
- China 84,478
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Source: MTI
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