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BREAKING NEWS! Hungary reports first cases of coronavirus! – UPDATE
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Two people in Hungary have been infected with coronavirus, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Wednesday.
“We have our first coronavirus case, in fact there are already two patients who have had to be taken to a medical facility due to coronavirus infection,” Orbán said in a video posted on Facebook after a meeting of the operative board overseeing Hungary’s response to the new virus.
The patients, both Iranian students, are at present symptom-free, but have been taken to Budapest’s St. László Hospital, the prime minister said.
“The coronavirus has arrived in Hungary,” Orbán said, adding that Hungary had now entered the phase of defending against the outbreak.
From now on, the operative board will meet every day at noon before briefing the press on the latest updates concerning the virus, he said.
At Wednesday’s meeting, the board concluded that Hungary had enough doctors and nurses along with the necessary tools and the legislative framework needed to defend against the virus, the prime minister added.
Several Hungarians to be released from quarantine
Nine Hungarians will be released from quarantine between Friday and next Thursday out of 12 held around the world due to the suspicion that they may be infected by the new coronavirus, the foreign minister told a press conference.
The Hungarians in quarantine in Italy, Spain, Germany and Japan continue to be in good health,
Péter Szijjártó said on Wednesday. Two Hungarians in China do not plan to leave their current place of residence and the Hungarian who tested positive on a boat near Japan will stay in quarantine until fully recovered, he added.
The Hungarian authorities have contacted the two students who recently passed through Budapest and who since tested positive in Prague, Szijjártó said. Their route in Budapest has been established and the people they were in touch with identified. The operative board overseeing Hungary’s response to the new virus has taken relevant measures, he added.