Author:

Vince Ballai – Máté Nyusztay

The effect of the coronavirus was felt on mortality statistics. In week 42, nearly as many people died as the virus died from the virus compared to the average of the previous five years.

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It is already clear that the domestic mortality statistics from coronavirus are deteriorating. While even fewer deaths occurred in the first nine months of the year than in the same period in previous years, since the start of the second wave of the coronavirus epidemic in early October, there has been an increasing proportion of domestic deaths due to the coronavirus infection.

The increase is also shown by the fact that while in the first week of October every 30 and in the second week it was approximately every 20, in the third week (between October 12 and 18) every 13 death was related to the coronavirus (The latest data for week 42 available on the OSC website shows that a total of 2,623 people died that week, while in this period, according to daily data published on koronavirus.gov.hu, 205 people, that is, 7.8 percent of all deaths died from a viral infection).

In week 42, it can already be felt that, almost certainly due to the coronavirus, the number of deaths is already much higher than in the previous five years: the average of the previous five years (2428) is almost 200 times greater than in 2020 (2623). In the previous five years, by the way, most people died in 2016, then 2,493, which is still 130 less than this year’s figure.

It is important to note that in the last full week of this year, week 45 ending on November 8, a total of 604 people died from the coronavirus. In the previous five years, there was an average of 2,405 deaths in week 45, which means that every fourth death would be from coronavirus, although we do not know exactly, since this year’s data for this week is not yet available in the CSO website.


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