Coronavirus – Patients diagnosed in all Hungarian counties

People infected with the new coronavirus have been found in all counties in Hungary, Cecília Müller, the chief medical officer, told a press conference on Monday.

Speaking at an online press conference of the operative board responsible for the epidemic response, Müller said the number of people contracting Covid-19 has started to grow exponentially rather then in a linear fashion. In the past 24 hours, 36 patients have been confirmed to be suffering from the disease, she noted.

She said

there were now several cases where infected people were not showing any symptoms.

This is because 80 percent of people get through the infection with only light symptoms. However, it still poses considerable threat to the elderly and those with existing health issues, she added. She expressed thanks to the elderly for respecting the new measures which she said also served their interests.

In order to minimise the number of personal meetings, procedures have changed so that ambulances visit the potentially infected, take the tests and transport the samples to the laboratories, she said.