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Hungary reports jump in new COVID cases to record 20,174 on Wed – Metro US

Hungary reports jump in new COVID cases to record 20,174 on Wed

FILE PHOTO: A nurse gives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech
FILE PHOTO: A nurse gives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to a patient at the Bethesda Children’s Hospital in Budapest

BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s daily tally of new COVID-19 infections jumped to a record 20,174 on Wednesday, but the number of patients treated in hospital has remained at a relatively low level.

In Hungary, a country of 10 million, 41,087 people have died of COVID-19. There are 3,145 coronavirus patients in hospital now, including 164 on ventilators, the government said.

(Reporting by Krisztina Than; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)