The number of active infections is 25,862.

Coronavirus: the second wave

Half a year after the spring outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, 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 signs, the second wave also reached Hungary. Follow our news!

The new coronavirus infection was detected in 1,068 new Hungarian citizens in the last 24 hours, increasing the number of infected people identified at home to 37,664, the official information page of koronavirus.gov.hu ​​reported.

Twenty-one patients died, seventeen of them over seventy years of age, so the number of deaths increased to 954 and 10,848 have already recovered.

So far, a total of 825,570 tests have been carried out in the country, according to official data.

The number of actively infected people is 25,862. 33% of the actively infected, 46% of the dead and 32% of those recovered were from Budapest.

According to a new dynamic data service requested in hospitals, 1,252 coronavirus patients are treated in hospitals, 138 of whom are connected to ventilators.


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