Economy 11 December 2020, 9:26am

COVID-19 in Hungary: 6,197 new cases on Thursday

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Hungarian authorities confirmed 6,197 new coronavirus (COVID-19) infections on Thursday, increasing the total since March to 271,200. The death toll rose to 6,622 after the disease claimed the lives of 171, mostly elderly or chronic, patients in the past 24 hours. The number of recoveries is now 78,700 and the number of active cases is 185,878. There are 7,841 coronavirus patients being treated in hospital currently, with 610 of them on ventilators.

With the 6,197 new cases, the seven-day average decreased slightly to 4,735.

Although the number of fatalities was the same as the day before, the seven day-average dropped to 158, marking the fifth consecutive day of a downward trend.

The number of coronavirus patients being treated in hospital has shown a decline for the third day in a row, and the number of people receiving artificial ventilation also decreased yesterday.

Nevertheless, the daily figures give no cause for celebration as the high case number came from only 28,603 tests, for a high positivity rate of 21%. Of course, we still do not know how many rapid tests were applied as aggregated weekly data on that is expected only early next week.

Overall, it is too early to talk about a decline in the pandemic curve and an improvement in the virus situation, as these would require a more convincing decrease in daily case numbers.

As for regional distribution, the highest number of new cases was recorded in Budapest and Pest county yesterday, with 790 and 751 cases, respectively, followed by Hajdú-Bihar county with 405.

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