Index – National – Number of new infections has decreased, 154 patients have died

According to the latest data from Tuesday morning, the new coronavirus infection (Covid-19) was detected in 3,951 new Hungarian citizens, thus increasing the number of infected people identified in Hungary to 221,073.

The number of recovered people is also constantly growing, currently 64,802 people, the number of actively infected people is 151,294.

The number of infections identified also appears to be controlled by ambulances, buses, and hospital staff. Cumulative test results for specific groups among daycare, kindergarten, school and social workers are expected this week.

Currently, the operative court ordered special breaks in 330 kindergartens for one group each (11%), 163 kindergartens (5) and 116 primary schools (5) for the entire institution, and one or two classes (22% ) in 562 elementary schools and 53 elementary schools (2) have a digital curriculum for the entire institution.

The number of infected people continues to grow across Europe, in neighboring countries and in Hungary, with more and more people seeking hospital care. The epidemic cannot be stopped, operational tension is aimed at curbing the epidemic and protecting the performance of hospitals.

The government, operational personnel and epidemiological authority constantly monitor the epidemiological situation and, depending on the evolution of the epidemic,

• There is still a curfew between 8 pm and 5 am, everyone has to get home by 8 pm One case of exemption from curfew is work, which, however, must be justified. A sample certificate is available at this address.
• In grocery stores, pharmacies, drugstores, the senior shopping protected time zone is open from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on weekdays and from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. on weekends, when only those over 65 can enter stores. However, it is also important to know that older people can shop at a different time than the protected shopping time zone.
• Stores, with the exception of pharmacies and gas stations, can stay open until 7pm and after curfew expires, so they can open at 5am at the earliest.
• Service providers and services that are not mentioned in the regulations (eg hairdresser, masseuse, personal trainer) can normally operate under the curfew rules.
• The norms introduced so far regarding the use of masks and distancing remain in force, with the obligation to wear a mask in some public areas of the settlements of more than ten thousand inhabitants. It is the responsibility of the mayor to designate the areas.
• The use of a mask is not yet mandatory during sports activities or in parks or green areas.
• All meetings are prohibited.
• Restaurants cannot accept guests, they can only stay there to bring food.
• The hotel cannot accept tourists, only guests arriving for business, economic or educational reasons.
• It is prohibited to carry out any type of event, including cultural events and Christmas fairs.
• Sports matches must be held behind closed doors.
• The use of leisure facilities, including in particular fitness rooms, indoor swimming pools, museums, libraries, cinemas and zoos, skating rinks, is prohibited.
• Nurseries, kindergartens and elementary schools are open up to the eighth grade as usual, with special institutional protection measures determined by the principal.
• High schools and universities have moved to a digital agenda.
• Fixed Internet access is available free of charge for thirty days to digital education students and educators in public education and vocational training.
• Private and family events (such as birthdays) can be held for up to ten people.
• Funerals can be held for up to fifty people.
• Weddings can be held without a wedding, but only certain people can attend the event.
• Public parking is free.
• Commercial P + R, Parking Lot, Parking Lot, Enclosed Surface Parking and Non-Enclosed Surface Parking are available free of charge from 7 pm to 7 am. The facility operator is obliged to allow free parking during this time zone.

The police strictly monitor compliance with the rules, impose fines and close places where regulations are not followed. Soldiers support the work of police officers in various cities across the country and ease the burden on health workers in 93 hospitals.

In Hungary, everyone has a hospital bed, care, a ventilator and the goal of protective measures is to keep it that way. To continue providing hospital care to coronavirus patients with a growing number of patients, deferred surgeries have been suspended and the number of hospitals involved in care and hospital beds reserved for coronavirus patients has been increased, operating staff said. .

The government is discussing all possible foreign vaccines. Up to this point

concluded in three manufacturers.

To stop the spread of the community continues

• Avoid places where there are many people inside,
• if possible, keep social distance,
• wash your hands frequently and thoroughly,
• who has been ordered to submit to an official national quarantine for a stay abroad or for any other reason,
• Anyone with symptoms should not go to the community but stay home and notify their GP by phone.

Free flu vaccines are already being given as part of health protection. Influenza vaccination is provided to GPs on an ongoing basis.

Attention is drawn to the fundamental importance of protecting elderly and chronic patients. Older people are also asked to pay more attention to themselves and the general precautions they take. Visiting hospitals and nursing homes is prohibited. And nursing home administrators must do everything possible to prevent infection. If a focal point takes place in a social institution or anywhere else in the community, the epidemiological deployment unit will take the necessary actions.

In addition to maintaining health protection, the government is working on additional economic and family protection measures.

(Cover image: University of Szeged coronavirus pharmacology student at the Dawn Star in Tata Reformed Kindergarten on November 30, 2020. Photo: Tamás Vasvári / MTI)