Hungary Among Europe’s Most Infected Countries
- 5 Oct 2020 11:19 AM
- Hungary Around the Clock
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control listed Hungary in the red zone in terms of Covid-19 levels at the end of September, as the number of infected people soared in dramatic proportions from the end of August, news website Telex reports.
Hungary recorded a record number of 1,322 new infections on Friday as well as a single-day record of 17 deaths.
The number of active infections, at 22,081, is more than ten times the maximum reached in the spring at 2,054 on May 4.
“Let me disappoint everybody: Hungary is second only to France in per capita terms in the epidemic. It is ahead of Spain and far ahead of Italy” said epidemiologist Ferenc Jakab of the University of Pécs, head of the Coronavirus Research Task Unit established by the cabinet in the spring.
“Compared to Europe, the pandemic is brutally raging in Hungary in per capita terms. This is the dark truth,” he said in a conversation broadcast online on Thursday.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has warned that “we shall not face autumn in a good mood,” Telex adds.
Jakab continued: “If we rush to our doom this way, we shall deplete our health care capacity. We do not see the pandemic peaking or reaching a plateau; the numbers are rising, and there will be more day by day”.
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