Economy 5 November 2020, 10:00am

COVID-19: Hungary records nearly 4,000 new cases, 84 deaths

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3,928 Hungarians were daignosed with coronavirus infection over the last 24 hours, taking the total number of infected people in the country to 94,916. 84 COVID-19 patients have died, most of them elderly with underlying chronic diseases, according to the official government portal. By Thursday morning, 2,147 coronavirus patients have succumbed to the infection, while 22,823 patients have recovered.

There were 3,928 daily new confirmed COVID-19 cases in Hungary yesterday, taking the total to 94,916. The daily figure is not a new record but close to the previous one. The trend of the 7-day moving average is sharply ascending.

Gergely Gulyás, the minister in charge of the Prime Minister's Office, said on Wednesday that there could be as many as 5,000 new cases, and although this figure has not been reached yet, it could easily be in the following days.

84 COVID-19 patients have died over the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 2,147. A record of daily fatalities (90) was reported on Wednesday morning and 84 is the second-highest figure, just as many people died two days ago.

The number of coronavirus patients in hospitals rose by 312 to 5,183 and there are 378 patients on ventilators, 23 more than a day earlier.

Local authorities performed nearly 18,000 tests over the past 24 hours and 22% of them came back positive which marks an extremely bad detection rate. Basically, every fifth test is positive.

The county breakdown shows that most new cases were diagnosed in Budapest (956), followed by Pest county (631), and there were many cases in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg (287) and Győr-Moson-Sopron counties (244), as well.

Including the above numbers Budapest and Pest county accounted for the most new confirmed cases over the past seven days, but northeast counties and Győr-Moson-Sopron also show a rising number of cases.

It is not Budapest and Pest county that are in the lead in terms of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. It is Győr-Moson-Sopron county with 405 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Nógrád with 358 cases.