Breaking – has the third wave already peaked in Hungary?
Cecília Müller, the chief medical officer of Hungary, said on Tuesday that the epidemic shows an upward trend. However, today it seems that the third wave is approaching its peak in the country. Portfólió, a local economic website, says, for example, that Hungary is already in the starting phase of the epidemic plateau.
Portfolio.hu checked the infection data of the 19 counties and the capital. Their results show that there are only three counties where the spread of coronavirus is still accelerating (Baranya, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Heves counties). Furthermore, in two additional counties, the increase of the number of infected people stopped (Vas and Zala counties). In nine counties, a kind of stagnation started, while in six, it seems that the number of new infected started to decrease – based on portfolio.hu.
However, Easter family visits can still destroy the positive trends.
According to the website, the 6,700 new infected announced today morning shows that the seven-day average started to decrease. Based on their analysis, some former infection centres like Budapest, Pest, Komárom-Esztergom, Győr-Moson-Sopron, Nógrád, and Somogy counties began to show better numbers.
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It seems that the country broke into three parts in this regard.
In the first category, there are the counties in which the spread of the virus is still accelerating. These are Baranya, where the number of new infected broke a new record today, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Heves counties. In Vas and Zala counties, it seems that the trend of acceleration stopped.
Some counties show the trend of stagnation. These are Veszprém, Budapest (where data fluctuate), Pest (fluctuation), Győr-Moson-Sopron (fluctuation), Békés, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, Tolna és Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, and Hajdú Bihar counties.
Finally, the acceleration in the number of new infections started to decrease in six counties: Komárom-Esztergom, Fejér, Somogy, Csongrád-Csanád, Bács-Kiskun and Nógrád.
This means that in most counties, the spread of the virus stagnates or started to decrease, which is very good news. However, these are only trends yet, and behind the percents, thousands of people catch the virus every day, need to be transferred to a hospital or have to receive even intensive care and ventilation. Moreover, the number of deaths has never been as high as today.
Among others, that is why people have to follow the restriction rules even during Easter.
If not, the virus’s spread can still accelerate, and Hungary will have to deal with a fourth wave. Portfolio.hu highlights that there are already promising features in the epidemic process in Hungary. However, those can still worsen even in the following days.
Source: portfolio.hu