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HUNGARY RECORDS 131 COVID FATALITIES, 7,706 NEW INFECTIONS

 

Fully 131 patients, generally elderly with an underlying condition, died over the past 24 hours, and 7,706 new coronavirus infections were officially registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Monday. Fully 1,334,595 people have received their first jab, and 398,962 have been fully inoculated, the website said. The number of infections has risen to 524,196, while the death toll has increased to 17,083. The number of recoveries stands at 354,817. There are 152,296 active infections, while hospitals are caring for 9,300 Covid patients, 1,008 of whom are on ventilators. Fully 45,605 people are in official home quarantine, while the number of tests carried out has increased to 4,104,415. Most infections have been registered in Budapest (100,074) and Pest County (71,373), followed by Győr-Moson-Sopron (30,299) Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén (29,662), and Hajdú-Bihar counties (28,493). The county least affected by the infection is Tolna (11,487).