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Hungarian couple returning from cruise ship quarantined
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Two Hungarian citizens who have flown home after staying on a Dutch cruise ship that recently docked in Cambodia will be placed in quarantine as a precautionary measure against coronavirus, the National Public Health Centre (NNK) said on Monday.
The two Hungarians stayed on board MS Westerdam between February 1 and 14. The ship docked in Cambodia last week after several other countries denied it port fearing coronavirus, the authority said in a statement.
NNK said
it’s possible the two Hungarians are in the latent phase of the disease.
One passenger aboard the ship, a 83-year-old American national, in the meantime has been diagnosed with coronavirus.
The Hungarian couple arrived in Budapest by plane on Saturday.
Government handling coronavirus challenge appropriately
The government has made timely preparations to meet the challenges associated with coronavirus, Human Resources Minister Miklós Kásler told parliament on Monday, adding that no cases of the viral infection have been reported in Hungary.