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Did the peaking of the second COVID-wave end in Hungary?
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Fully 94 Covid patients, generally elderly and suffering from an underlying illness, died over the past 24 hours, while 1,778 new infections were officially registered, bringing the total number of infected to 342,237, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Sunday.
The death toll has risen to 10,648, while 197,936 people have made a recovery.
The number of active infections stands at 133,653,
while there are 4,980 hospitalised Covid patients, 357 on a ventilator.
Inoculation of the healthcare staff and the elderly living in retirement homes is currently being carried out. The next shipment of vaccines is expected to arrive on Tuesday.
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Most infections have been registered in Budapest (64,187) and Pest County (42,499) so far, followed by the counties of Győr-Moson-Sopron (19,478), Hajdú-Bihar (19,446) and Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén (19,124). The county least affected by the infection is Tolna (7,055).
Restrictions to stay in place until February 1
The government will keep coronavirus-related restrictions in place until February 1, and secondary schools will continue digital education, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday.
A decree made commercial P+Rs, parking garages and parking lots in residential areas free of charge from 7:00 in the evening until 7:00 in the morning. Soldiers are helping the police in carrying out their duties in public areas. Soldiers have also been assigned to help out staff in 93 hospitals around Hungary.
NO – the second wave, of this novel coronavirus has NOT ended.
The layers of its rampart intrusion into Hungarian Society and its ongoing attack on Human Life – its aftermath of devastation – still distanced from its Zenith.
Human Discipline – the “need” of an accelerated immunization process of the vaccine inoculation Nationally – paramount in our challenge and fight in the control and management of this deadly novel virus.