Fully 162 Covid patients, generally elderly and suffering from an underlying illness, died over the past 24 hours in Hungary, while 6,697 infections were registered, bringing the total over the course of the pandemic to 250,278, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Sunday.
The death toll stands at 5,868 while 71,682 have made a recovery. The number of active infections stands at 172,728, while 7,709 patients are in hospital, 656 on ventilators. Fully 50,283 people are in official home quarantine, while the number of tests carried out has risen to 1,941,724. Most of the infected have been registered in Budapest (51,753) and Pest County (32,317), followed by the counties of Győr-Moson-Sopron (15,762), Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén (14,970), Hajdú-Bihar (13,836) and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg counties (12,813). Tolna County (4,227) has the least number of infections.
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