The number of deaths increased by 158 in one day. 833 patients require mechanical ventilation.

Coronavirus – the second year

It has been more than a year since the Chinese authorities informed the WHO of the emergence of a new, rapidly spreading virus. Since then, there has hardly been a person in the world who has not heard the term Covid-19, and more and more people are mourning the family member or friend with whom the new disease ended as stocks collapsed in weeks and our entire lives. they were rewritten by the epidemic. By now, the vaccines have been completed, which in turn raises not only hope, but again many questions, while not only stopping the virus, but also threatening another mutation. You will find the details of this fight in our series of articles.

By Tuesday, the number of people diagnosed with the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) had risen by 6,494, bringing the number of people infected with the pathogen in Hungary since the start of the epidemic to 475,207.

The number of deaths increased by 158 in one day, so the coronavirus disease, Covid-19, has claimed 16,146 deaths, according to official figures.

A total of 338,946 people have been declared cured so far, 2,202 the day before, bringing the number of known active infections to 120,115. There were 4,134 in one day, the most recent on January 11.

A total of 8,270 coronavirus patients are already being treated at the hospital, with 346 admitted on the last day. So many patients at the same time have never been hospitalized for Covid-19. Their number topped 8,000 just once during the pandemic, on December 7, and there were 8,045 that day.

833 people need mechanical ventilation, 27 more than on Sunday.

Last day, 17,265 coronavirus tests were carried out, a total of 3,891,778 since the outbreak began, of which 37.61 percent were positive.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), if a country conducts enough tests, it can have a true picture of the rate of spread of the epidemic if no more than 5 percent of the tests performed are positive.

According to the information available at koronavirus.gov.hu, the vaccination program is in order and on schedule. In Hungary, the vaccination rate is the second highest in the EU, with 1,047,045 people vaccinated, 44,331 on Monday, of which 314,485 had already received the second dose.

General practitioners and hospital vaccination points have been reported to vaccinate registered elderly people on a continuous basis. AstraZeneca was already dispatched for GP vaccines in the following days, and today Sputnik and Pfizer arrive at the hospital with the vaccines.


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