COVID-19 Numbers Further Worsening in Hungary

The number of new and active infections, fatalities and those on ventilators are also at their peak.

275 people have lost their lives in the last 24 hours due to the coronavirus epidemic. This is a record, yesterday's reported figure of 272 victims was overwritten by this statistic.

As regards, the number of coronavirus deaths per million people, only two mini-states, Gibraltar and San Marino, as well as the Czech Republic, are worse off than Hungary in terms of the epidemic as a whole, and based on the last seven days, Hungary is a world leader in this sad statistic.

Together with those who died in the past 24 hours, a total of 19,499 people have lost their lives officially to the new coronavirus infection so far.

The number of people on the ventilator has also continued to rise, with 1,480 now in need of mechanical ventilation. In one day, their number increased by 13.