Details from Hungary and some examples of how others are doing.
Current data
R is said to be 1.03%, but the doubling time of new cases is about 14 days. From the top of my head this seems contradictory, but my braincells are on holiday so someone pls. correct me.
Positivity rate of tests is 15%.
Usual number of tests daily is between 7k-10k
Median age at time of death from coronavirus is 80 for women and 75 for men.
There is an independent group who do visualizations, here is the age dispersion of deaths in Hungary. It is very visual. If you hover over a point it will tell you exact age.
the black horizontal line is age: 65, pink women/blue: men
(atlo.team/koronamonitor/)
economic data
GDP down ~14% in Q2.
Hungary is part of the EU wide shit-study :) Without knowing hungarian it's actually easy to understand the weekly results here:
www.nnk.gov.hu/index.php/koronavirus-tajekoztato/863-stagnal-a-szennyvizben-a-koronavirus-orokitoanyaga (Hungarian PHE)
green: going down / yellow: no change / red: going up
The country with 9.5m ppl fared really well in the first wave, but locked borders, shut schools and businesses en par with Austria.
Then everything went back to normal, minimal restrictions over the summer, borders open. In August figures started rising after everyone fled to Croatia, Greece and Italy, but by beginning of Sept when all schools (incl unis) opened f2f it was still at 189/100k.
Now its slightly above 500/100k.
There is no real talk about coronavirus amongst the general population (as I hear from lots of friends and family), media is full of local or int'l news not related to covid.
General knowledge is quite poor.
No schools require mandatory masks, no extra funding for hand washing gels or aircons (typically there is no ventilation other than the window in about at least half of schools or more).
End of last week the PM cautioned that ppl should think twice about booking their ski trip ('tis the time), but must have spoken to some friend (crony) because early this week he has stated that it will be perfectly safe (in Feb/March, 2021) to go to Austria for a skiing trip or two.
On the official (gov) coronavirus information page under the Fresh News section I can read about how A-level students chose french and english more than german and something else. Or about how single parent families should buy homes with the gov scheme that rewards having kids (basically you promise to have 1-2-3 more kids and you get x/2x/3x amount of low interest loan to buy property. If you can't get to your target kid number your loan will skyrocket)
Borders are quasi shut. There is a huge list of why non-hungarian people might be allowed to enter. Basically if you say something at all you are allowed in. Or not, based on the actual official's mood that day. (sorry anecdata of friend's english wife being denied entry to an event that is otherwise on the list)
There are about 5-600 ICU beds in the country, but not equally distributed. And the real number is guarded as top secret so this is a best guess. At the height of the pandemic there were about 200 people in ICU, but then the daily new cases were around a 100 or below. Now there is no real data coming out of gov wrt healthcare that is believable and healthcare workers had to sign a full NDA. Patient's phones are taken away so that they won't take photos. If they manage to than they will face prosecution as it is illegal to take photos or videos inside any healthcare facility.
Budapest is the worst hit. 1.9m ppl live there and there are/were 15k+ cases. For the lie of me can't find the breakdown, so not really useful.
the Hungarian ONS has no mention of covid on their site and it takes a lot of skill to get to useless covid related data.
Fun fact: A month ago it made headline news that 13 (of 48 total) tube station now have hand sanitizing stations.
Given how I have no tube station in my vicinity, can someone actually say if we have any sanitizing stations in tube stations?