On the last day, the death toll was as high before Christmas last year as it is now. There are many more in the hospital and on the ventilator than at the peak of the second wave.

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.

There are 179 new coronavirus victims in Hungary, according to data from the epidemiological information website. With them, the death toll rose to 16,325. The last time there were that many victims in one day was on December 21, 2020.

5653 new infections were diagnosed. Due to fluctuations in the provision of data, it is worth comparing it with the number reported last Wednesday, when the data was 4,211. Since the beginning of February, there have only been two days in which fewer new infections have been detected than the same day of the previous week.

The number of infections reported today was revealed as 30,752 tests performed (3,891,778 since the outbreak began), or 18.4 percent of positive tests.

The hospital carries 8,348 patients, 844 of whom are on ventilators. This is an increase of 78 and 11 people, respectively, compared to what was reported a day earlier, which is the highest number since the beginning of the epidemic.

Meanwhile, 1,898 people were classified as recovered, but the number of active cases still increased by 3,576 to 123,691. The last time it was higher than January 10.

Yesterday 60,746 people were vaccinated, for a total of 1,107,791. There were 3,421 people who also received the second vaccine yesterday, along with 317,906 of those who had already received the second dose.


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