• Home
• Channel: Current Affairs
• Covid Update: 197,057 Active Cases, 157 New Deaths In Hungary

Covid Update: 197,057 Active Cases, 157 New Deaths In Hungary

• 17 Dec 2020 1:00 PM

2,982 new cases were confirmed. The number of people infected with the coronavirus in Hungary now stands at 291,549. The number of deaths stands at 7,538, while the number of those recovered now stands at 86,954.

197,057 is the number of active infected, 7,522 patients are hospitalized, 573 of them are on ventilators. 

The number of infected people is growing exponentially throughout Europe, in the neighboring countries and in Hungary, and more and more people need hospital care.

The parliament voted to extend the state of emergency, and further protection measures were announced, designed to reduce the incidence of coronavirus disease and the burden on hospitals.

Since the epidemic cannot be stopped, the goal now is to slow it down, so Hungarian government is asking people for the cooperation, discipline and complience with the rules which are stricly monitored by the police.

Click here to read the restrictions in place.

Recovered: 86,954
Number of samplings: 2,424,533

A call center set up for advice on the coronavirus can be reached on +36-80-277-455 and +36-80-277-456 or by email koronavirus@bm.gov.hu

Source:
koronavirus.gov.hu

• How does this content make you feel?
• I love it
• I like it
• I dislike it

• Active Cases Coronavirus Covid-19 Deaths In Hungary Number Of Cases

Explore More Reports

Big Financial Boost for Budapest as State & City Agree New Deal

• 2 Oct 2026 2:29 PM

The finance minister will appoint a budget supervisor to Budapest to continuously monitor the capital's financial management, and the state will ease the capital's strained finances by repaying past overpayments and releasing subsidies, under agreements announced after the first meeting of the reorganised Metropolitan Council for Public Developments (FKT) on Thursday, 1 October.



Budapest Drug Crisis Can't be Resolved Without Child Protection Reform - Mayor

• 14 Sep 2026 7:11 AM

Neither the drug crisis nor related public safety issues can be resolved in the long term without first reforming the child protection system, Budapest Mayor Gergely Karacsony said on Facebook.



Whistleblower Exposes Overpriced State IT Procurements in Hungary

• 14 Sep 2026 6:55 AM

Vilmos Valyi-Nagy, a former state secretary in the Orbán government between 2010 and 2014 and a key source for investigative journalists over the past decade, has given an interview to Partizan. In the second part of the interview, published late on Friday, he discussed meetings on problematic cases, the inflated purchase price of Antenna Hungaria, and overpriced IT procurements.



Head of New Asset Recovery Office in Hungary Elected - Fidesz Walkout

• 31 Aug 2026 11:02 AM

Parliament elected political scientist Anna Unger as head of the National Asset Recovery and Protection Office (NVVH) in a secret ballot.