Coronavirus – Three patients die, registered cases rise by 37 to 3,678 in Hungary

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Three Covid-19 patients have died in the past 24 hours, all of whom were elderly and had underlying illnesses, bringing the total number of fatalities to 476, while the number of registered novel coronavirus infections in Hungary increased by 37 to 3,678, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Friday morning.

Fully 1,587 hospitalised patients have made a recovery, while 11,668 are officially in home quarantine. The number of tests carried out stands at 155,801.

The website said Hungary is in the second phase and the virus is still spreading. The aim now, however, is to gradually resume normal living in line with a strict schedule, it added.

Budapest has the most registered infections (1,754 people), followed by Pest County (510) and Fejer County (365). Bekes County (11) has the fewest infections in Hungary.

Latest count of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide

  • World 5,103,278
  • U.S. 1,577,287
  • Russia 317,554
  • Brazil 310,087
  • Britain 252,246
  • Spain 233,037
  • Italy 228,006
  • France 181,951
  • Germany 179,021
  • Turkey 153,548
  • China 84,503a

Source: MTI

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