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Coronavirus – Hungary death toll rises to 7!
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Another elderly coronavirus patient, a man with a chronic illness, died on Monday morning, bringing the virus-related death toll in Hungary to seven, koronavirus.gov.hu said.
The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the country has risen to 167, the government website said.
Of the patients, 10 are Iranian, 2 are British, one Kazakh, 1 Vietnamese and 153 are Hungarian.
- The rector of the Szeged University performed surgeries even though he was infected with coronavirus
Chief medical officer: Virus cases ‘spread evenly’ in Hungary
Cases of the new coronavirus have been confirmed in even numbers across Hungary, with no epicentre recorded, Cecília Müller, the chief medical officer, told a press conference on Sunday.
Speaking at a press conference of the operative board coordinating the epidemic response, Tibor Lakatos, head of the board’s emergency centre, said that the situation does not warrant the introduction of curfews. If epicentres emerge, the board will act accordingly, he said.
Müller said that the second coronavirus tests conducted on the contacts of the Moroccan transport minister, Hungary’s Interior Minister Sándor Pintér among them, have tested negative.