Coronavirus – Three patients die, registered cases rise by 43 to 3,641 in Hungary

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Altogether three patients have died in the past 24 hours, all of whom were elderly and had underlying illnesses, bringing the total number of fatalities to 473, while the number of registered novel coronavirus infections in Hungary increased by 43 to 3,641, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Wednesday morning.

Fully 1,509 hospitalised patients have made a recovery, while 11,103 are officially in home quarantine. The number of tests carried out stands at 147,511.

The website said Hungary is in the second phase and the virus was still spreading.

The aim now, however, was to gradually resume normal living in line with a strict schedule, it added.

Budapest has the most registered infections (1,726 people), followed by Pest County (500) and Fejer County (363). Bekes County (11) has the fewest infections in Hungary.

Latest count of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide

  • World 4,999,981
  • U.S. 1,551,853
  • Russia 308,705
  • Brazil 291,579
  • Britain 249,619
  • Spain 232,555
  • Italy 227,364
  • France 181,700
  • Germany 178,473
  • Turkey 152,587
  • China 84,503

Source: MTI

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