Number of Hungarian COVID-deaths almost 25 thousand

Fully 285 patients, generally elderly with co-morbidities, died over the past 24 hours, while 3,597 new infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Wednesday.

So far 3,039,023 people have received a first jab, while 1,290,709 have been fully vaccinated. This means that 30.7 pc of Hungary’s population already received at least their first jab while this rate is only 15.8 pc in the European Union.

The number of active infections has risen to 272,066, while hospitals are caring for 10,364 Covid patients, 1,204 of whom need respiratory assistance.

There are almost 45 thousand people in official quarantine, while almost 5 million tests have been officially carried out.

Since the first outbreak, 731,675 infections have been registered, while fatalities have risen to 24,265. Fully 435,344 people have made a recovery.

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So far, most infections have been registered in Budapest and Pest County, followed by the counties of Győr-Moson-Sopron, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and Hajdú-Bihar. We show you the regional differences on the map below:

Hungarian government partially lifted restrictions and will soon decide on further relaxing