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Daily News Hungary Daily News Hungary · 12/11/2020
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Government: Epidemic situation is much better in Hungary than in most parts of EU

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Hungary ranks 10th in the European Union in terms of the number of people per million infected by the coronavirus and 15th in terms of the death toll, suggesting that the situation “is worse in most of the EU than in Hungary”, the government website koronavirus.gov.hu said on Thursday.

The website said pandemic data on various countries is best compared “in the broadest possible timeframe” because data methods varied widely. The EU average number of cases is 150 percent higher than the Hungarian figure, the website said.

“It is important to point out that Hungary’s data supply is among the most transparent and open, with every deceased person infected with the coronavirus included in the daily deaths figure, even if the direct cause of death was not the virus but an underlying illness,” the website said.

Since the start of the pandemic, some 2,784 infected people have died in Hungary. Their average age was 76 and most had an underlying illness. Only 7 percent of the cases showed no indication of an underlying illness, it added.

All Hungarian hospitals automatically report a Covid-related death, and this data is incorporated into the official statistics within 24-48 hours, the website said.

The death rate in Hungary is around half the EU average, with worse figures reported from Belgium, Spain, Italy, France, Sweden, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Romania, Ireland, Luxembourg, Slovenia and Portugal, it added.

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3 Comments

  1. Gigi says:
    13/11/2020 at 06:06

    It’s a shock Hungary’s death rate is not higher. If theirs is good, the others must be horrific! Relatives are reporting 3 day wait for someone to go to the home of an ill person to give the test, the, a week to wait for results! Only 10 days of quarantine required, and after a mere 3 days of no symptoms, allowed back to work. Are the government people not hearing the processes set up by the west? Too many lax rules, crowded buses, and no doubt lack of sanitizing public areas is kepping the virus active and spreading.

  2. Gigi says:
    13/11/2020 at 06:06

    It’s a shock Hungary’s death rate is not higher. If theirs is good, the others must be horrific! Relatives are reporting 3 day wait for someone to go to the home of an ill person to give the test, the, a week to wait for results! Only 10 days of quarantine required, and after a mere 3 days of no symptoms, allowed back to work. Are the government people not hearing the processes set up by the west? Too many lax rules, crowded buses, and no doubt lack of sanitizing public areas is kepping the virus active an multiplying.

  3. Paul says:
    13/11/2020 at 12:12

    Figures may need rechecking. For example numbers of deaths and new cases in Ireland only a small percentage of those in Hungary.

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