Number of Covid-19 victims in Hungary is slowly decreasing

Fully 186 patients, generally elderly with co-morbidities, died over the past 24 hours, while 2,584 new infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Thursday.

So far 3,870,222 people have received a first jab, while 1,822,655 have been fully vaccinated.

The number of active infections went down to 245,928, while hospitals are treating 5,554 Covid patients, 662 of whom need respiratory assistance.

There are 31,133 people in official quarantine, while 5,349,792 tests have been officially carried out.

Since the first outbreak, 776,983 infections have been registered, while fatalities have risen to 27,358. Fully 503,697 people have made a recovery.

So far, most infections have been registered in Budapest and Pest County, followed by the counties of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Győr-Moson-Sopron and Hajdú-Bihar.

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Terraces have opened on Saturday

The number of Hungarians vaccinated against Covid-19 reached 3.5 million last week, so restaurant and bar terraces have opened this Saturday.

Gergely Gulyás told a press briefing that open-air facilities, similarly to shops, can stay open until 9.30pm, while the night-time curfew will begin an hour later at 11pm.

Reopening catering facilities is “the first step towards regaining freedom”, Gulyás said, adding that he hoped faster steps could follow. He added that “a large amount of vaccine is expected to arrive soon”.

One million doses of the Chinese vaccine arrive this week, as well as 200,000 first doses of the Russian vaccine, Gulyás said, adding that the second dose of the latter would follow promptly.

Over 300,000 doses of Pfizer also arrive this week, he added. So far, some 4.4 million have registered for the vaccine and 73% of them have received their jabs. Hungary will need some 6 million people vaccinated to reach herd immunity, he added.

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Source: MTI