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In the ranking of coronavirus tests carried out per thousand people, Hungary is in the penultimate place among the member states of the European Union. Only in Croatia is this rate lower.
In Hungary, there are only 55 tests per thousand inhabitants. They test twice in Romania and five times in Serbia like we do.
The fact that the proportion of positive tests is higher than five percent, according to the criteria of the World Health Organization (WHO), means that the epidemic is no longer under control in Hungary, Euronews notes.
The WHO published in May a set of criteria according to which if a country has a positive test rate of five percent or less, it indicates that the epidemic is under control.
In Europe, two countries, Spain and Ukraine, have rates above 10, meaning that control over the spread of the epidemic has completely slipped from the hands of the authorities there.
In three countries: In the Czech Republic (7%), Romania (6%) and Hungary – the rate is above the 5 percent marked by the WHO as a critical point.
As for Western European countries, France has 5.4 percent. In Austria and Croatia, the latest figures are 4.9 percent.
Since early summer, Luxembourg has been the test record in terms of population in the European Union, a country with a population of just over 600,000, with nearly 650 samples per 1,000 inhabitants, Euronews writes. No new cases have been registered in Luxembourg in the last 24 hours.
Denmark ranks second on the list, approaching 500. In Denmark, 454 cases were recorded in the last daily case, but no person has died there in the last 24 hours. In Austria, the number of weekly samples has been around 80,000 in the last month. In Austria, 763 new coronavirus infections have been recorded in the last 24 hours. In Belgium, one of the worst affected by the epidemic, which also has the same population as Hungary, the number of tests carried out each week surpassed two hundred thousand last week.
Multiple tests do not necessarily mean greater security, but an infection caught early can save lives.
Top image: Protective physicians and nurses visit Covid’s Department of Orthopedic Traumatology at St. John’s Hospital in the capital to greet patients infected with the coronavirus. Photo: MTI / Balogh Zoltán
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