COVID-19: Further Improving Numbers in Hungary

19, mostly elderly, chronic patients died last week (down from 29 in the previous week), bringing the official total number of deaths in this country to 48,677, the government's Coronavirus Press Center said on Wednesday.

620 new infections were confirmed in the past week (about the same as in the previous week), bringing the total number of identified infections to 2,192,447 since the start of the outbreak.

The number of recovered cases increased to 2,139,857 while the number of active infected has fallen to 3,913.

There are currently 383 patients with the new coronavirus infection in hospital in Hungary, 7 of whom are on ventilators.

The number of people vaccinated against the coronavirus in Hungary is 6,421,498, of whom 6,208,088 received their second, 3,904,558 their third and 422,103 their fourth vaccination.

According to the statement, the epidemic in Hungary is currently "at a moderate level," thanks in part to the high vaccination rate. It was stressed that unvaccinated people remain the most at risk and are therefore still encouraged to get vaccinated.