252 people died, most of them elderly, chronically ill, and another 5,481 Hungarian citizens were diagnosed with the coronavirus, koronavirus.gov.hu ​​announced on Tuesday, highlighting that 1,636,436 people have been vaccinated in Hungary so far, 481,820 of whom have already received the second dose. also received.

It was written on the government portal: the number of infected people identified in Hungary has increased to 586,123. The number of those who died rose to 18,703, and the number of those who recovered was 378,176.

The number of active infected people increased to 189,244. 11,873 coronavirus patients are being cared for in hospitals, of which 1,389 are on ventilators.

There are 50,096 people under official home quarantine, and the number of samples has increased to 4,334,584.

They pointed out, "we are in the rapidly rising branch of the third wave of the epidemic", the British virus mutant is spreading very quickly, the number of active infected and hospitalized patients is increasing significantly, therefore the restrictions are still in place.

MTI / koronavirus.gov.hu

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