Hungary Covid-19 deaths top 550

Two elderly patients have died in the past 24 hours, both with underlying illnesses, bringing the total number of Covid-19 fatalities to 550, while registered novel coronavirus infections in Hungary have increased to 4,017, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Sunday morning.

Fully 2,324 hospitalised patients have made a recovery. The number of active infections stands at 1,133. Forty-one percent of the active cases, 60 percent of the fatalities and 48 percent of full recoveries are in Budapest, the site said.

Fully 365 Covid-19 patients are undergoing treatment in hospital, 20 of whom are on ventilators.

Altogether 9,523 are in official home quarantine. The number of tests carried out stands at 214,468.

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 (1,906 people) has the highest number of infections, followed by Pest County (585), Fejér County (374) and Komárom-Esztergom (285). Békés County (11) has the lowest number.

Hungary’s four medical universities have conducted a total 51,000 novel coronavirus tests as part of a national screening programme since the epidemic-related restrictions have been lifted, details HERE.

• Inspections lifted at Hungary border with Austria, Slovakia

Latest count of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide at 0500 GMT, June 9

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, June 9 – Xinhua reports.

Country Confirmed Cases

World 7,119,454

U.S. 1,961,185
Brazil 707,412
Russia 476,043
Britain 288,834
India 266,598
Spain 241,717
Italy 235,278
Peru 199,696
France 191,313
China 84,638

Source: MTI