Economy 9 February 2021, 10:30am

COVID-19 in Hungary: 1,079 new cases on Monday

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Hungarian authorities confirmed 1,079 new coronavirus (COVID-19) cases on Monday, increasing the total since last March to 378,734. The death toll rose to 13,249 after 94, mostly elderly or chronic, patients, succumbed to the disease yesterday. The number of active cases has decreased to 82,203. There are now 3,792 coronavirus patients in hospital, with 304 of them on ventilators. Hungary has vaccinated 291,396 people so far.

Although the number of new cases was not very high yesterday, it should be noted that Monday’s figures are typically lower due to the weekend effect. The trend remains a slow increase.

The pandemic had 94 fatal victims in Hungary in the past 24 hours, which is a high number and the trend is rising. As case numbers are also on the increase, daily fatalities are not expected to drop significantly in coming days.

We see the same trend in the number of people in hospital ad on ventilators, as both have increased in recent days and rose by 75 and 9, respectively, yesterday.

Very few tests, just 6,410, were applied in the past 24 hours. Accordingly, the positivity rate was outstanding at 16%. The ratio of positive tests has been increasing for all of last week and indicates a slight increase in the spread of the virus.

Only 2,350 people received a COVID-19 vaccine yesterday. So far, 291,396 people have been vaccinated, and 110,395 have received the second shot as well, for 3% and 113% f the population, respectively.