Hungary expands the number of hospitals treating patients

The human resources minister has ordered the expansion of the number of hospitals treating coronavirus patients, the ministry said on Sunday. Like the rest of Europe, Hungary, too, is seeing a steep rise in its number of coronavirus cases, the human resources ministry told MTI.

Outside Budapest, six additional hospitals will be treating Covid-19 patients from now on. These include institutions in Vác, Cegléd, Esztergom, Hatvan, Baja and Orosháza, the ministry said. The hospitals have been instructed to

reserve 20 percent of their beds for Covid-19 patients.

Meanwhile, the minister has ordered the institutions already treating Covid-19 patients to prepare 30 percent of their beds for new cases by Oct. 30.

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Miklós Kásler has also instructed the head of national ambulance service OMSZ to make sure that those requiring hospital care are transported to one of the secondary or tertiary designated institutions treating coronavirus patients if the primary hospitals are at full capacity, the ministry said.

As we reported before, thirty-five Covid-19 patients, mostly elderly and suffering from an underlying illness, died in the past 24 hours, and registered coronavirus infections rose by 3,149 to 59,247, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Sunday. The death toll rose to 1,425, while 16,242 people have made a recovery.

There are 41,580 active infections, while 2,449 patients are hospitalised, 221 on ventilators.

Fully 27,883 people are in official home quarantine, while the number of tests carried out stands at 980,373. Border controls and entry restrictions remain in place and citizens have been asked to avoid participating in large events.

Source: MTI