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Between 9 and 15 November this year, 3,642 people died, well above this period last year, which nepszava.hu warned in the latest weekly data available from the Central Statistical Office (KSH). In the last five years, an average of 2,300 to 2,400 people have died in the same period. The rising number of deaths is also putting greater pressure on funeral homes and cremation plants.
Seventeen cremation plants in the country still carry the burden, although more and more families in the countryside have opted for urns burial since the outbreak began.
– said Zoltán Tóth, president of the National Association of Hungarian Crematories to Népszava. The leader also spoke of that.
Household plants have been designed to double the usual needs until now, and are currently operating at sixty or seventy percent.
Coronavir hit the United States the hardest, with 299,168 people dying so far.
However, the national distribution is far from the same, for example, in Borsod, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, Zala and Vas counties their utilization is higher than the national average, and in Vas county the number of Urn burials have tripled. In Budapest, too (many (eighty percent)) choose cremation after losing a loved one.
According to data from the National Funeral Association and the Industry Association (OTEI), the cremation rate before the outbreak was only forty to forty-five percent in western Hungary and only thirty to thirty-five percent. cent in eastern Hungary. From the cremation it is clear that
It was also becoming more popular before the epidemic, as it was much cheaper (approximately 150 to 200 thousand florins) than a traditional funeral.
The pandemic has catalyzed this process so much that the plants will only receive the corpses at a pre-set time so that cremation can begin immediately.
In addition, in large settlements the waiting time for farewells has not only increased (it can be two weeks), which is hampered by the fact that it gets dark early and few people ask for farewell, so they cannot carry more than six or seven funerals a day. they are going to. In addition, the number of people infected among funeral service workers is also a particular problem. For example, the president of OTEI, the executive director of Budapest Funeral Institute Ltd., József Horváth was also a victim of the virus before.
As of Monday, the infection was detected in 3,470 people, slightly less than a day earlier.
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