Hungary’s chief medical officer ordered a nationwide ban on visitors to social care homes

Hungary’s chief medical officer ordered a nationwide ban on visits to social care homes as well as an order to keep residents from leaving the facilities, with a view to containing the spread of the novel coronavirus, the human resources ministry said on Tuesday.

The only exception to the ban on visits applies to terminally sick residents in the final stage of their illness, the statement said.

Exceptions to the rule on keeping residents of social care homes within the facility apply to people who must leave for treatment, as well as psychiatric patients and people with disabilities who may go on outings in groups.

Also, overnight shelters for homeless people are not required to stop guests from leaving the facility, the ministry said.

Incoming residents of social care homes may only be admitted in possession of two negative coronavirus tests.

As we wrote today, one Covid-19 patient with an underlying illness has died, and the number of registered coronavirus infections in Hungary has risen by 341 to 9,304 over the past 24 hours, details HERE.

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Source: MTI