COVID-19 pandemic in Hungary | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Hungary |
First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China |
Index case | Budapest |
Arrival date | 4 March 2020 (4 years, 5 months and 22 days) |
Confirmed cases | 2,203,171[1] |
Hospitalized cases | 31 |
Ventilator cases | 2 |
Recovered | 2,152,155 |
Deaths | 48,881 |
Fatality rate | 2.22% |
Government website | |
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The COVID-19 pandemic in Hungary was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). On 4 March 2020, the first cases in Hungary were announced.[2] The first coronavirus-related death was announced on 15 March on the government's official website.[3]
On March 18, 2020, Surgeon general Cecília Müller announced that the virus had spread to every part of the country.[4] As of June 2021, Hungary has the second-highest COVID-19 death rate in the world.[5]
As of 19 March 2023, a total of 16,568,528 vaccine doses have been administered.[6]