The number of active infections registered is close to 16,500.

Coronavirus: the second wave

Half a year after the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in the spring, the second wave of the pandemic has arrived. The radical increase in the number of infected is forcing more and more countries to re-impose restrictions, despite the fact that the world economy has not even recovered from the effects of the spring outbreak. According to the posters, the second wave also reached Hungary. Follow our news!

Another coronavirus infection was confirmed in another 927 people on Thursday, and a total of 22,127 people have been detected in the body since the outbreak began.

In the last day, 9 coronavirus patients died: the youngest was 57 years old and the oldest 90, the number of deaths from the epidemic increased to 718.

The number of active infections registered is 16,464, an increase of 791 compared to Wednesday, and a total of 4,945 people (+127) have been declared cured so far.

According to the government website that reports on the epidemic, 38 percent of those actively infected, 55 percent of the dead and 39 percent of those recovered are in Budapest.

A hospital treated 577 coronavirus patients on Thursday (+28), 30 of whom were hooked up to a ventilator (-2).

Last day 11,080 laboratory tests were performed and a total of 668,553 coronavirus tests have been performed since the outbreak began.

  • Budapest: +281
  • Győr-Moson-Sopron County: +111
  • Csongrád-Csanád County: +58
  • Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén region: +54
  • Pest County: +54
  • Nógrád County: +37
  • Somogy County: +32
  • Bács-Kiskun County: +31
  • Hajdú-Bihar County: +27
  • Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County: +27
  • Veszprém County: +27
  • Baranya County: +26
  • Vas County: +25
  • Fejér County: +20
  • Békés County: +18
  • Heves County: +18
  • Szabolcs County Szatmár-Bereg +14
  • Zala County: +14
  • Komárom-Esztergom County: +11
  • Tolna County: +6


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EU epidemiology experts contradict the Hungarian authorities


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There are seven countries where the development of the epidemic is increasingly worrying, one of them is Hungary, read the report of the Epidemiological Organization of the European Union. The problem can be great, mainly because they think that it is not the young who are infected, but the elderly.

More than fifty people have already been confirmed infected in the Szeged prison.


hvg.hu
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Only eighteen were infected in Nagyfa on Monday and the next day at thirty-nine. At this point, another twelve had a positive test result. It was not only the prisoners who contracted the virus.