Chief medical officer: Hungary in critical phase of pandemic management

Hungary is in "the most critical" period of its management of the coronavirus pandemic, with the country registering record caseload and deaths each day, the chief medical officer said on Wednesday. Health authorities are doing all they can to bring down the death rate, Cecilia Muller told an online press briefing of the operative board responsible for handling the pandemic, noting that Hungary saw a record 195 Covid-19 fatalities on Tuesday. Meanwhile, hospitals are close to reaching full capacity, with 10,284 Covid patients hospitalised, 1,128 of them on ventilators, she said.