Prognosis
Leading EU in Vaccines, Hungary Has Highest Covid Death Rate Now
- Hungary has highest mortality in past week despite jab success
- East Europe currently planet’s deadliest region for the virus
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Hungary is the planet’s deadliest place for coronavirus right now -- despite the government rolling out vaccines quicker than almost any other European Union state.
The country has registered 151.4 deaths per million people in the past seven days, the highest globally, data compiled by Bloomberg showed. At the same time, it trails only Malta within the EU for inoculation, offering five shots, including Russia’s Sputnik V and China’s Sinopharm, which the bloc’s regulators haven’t yet approved.