The number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus infection in Hungary has risen to 131, according to the official government website, koronavirus.gov.hu.
Ten of the patients are Iranians, two British, one is Kazakh, another Vietnamese, and 117 Hungarian citizens. The number has grown with another 28 cases since yesterday.
So far, four of the coronavirus patients have died and seven have recovered from the illness. Currently, 115 people are quarantined and the authorities have taken 4,443 samples.
The website warns that the country is now in the phase of group illnesses when the infection spreads through community, personal contact rather than just from one individual to another. The virus can be present anywhere in Hungary. They ask everyone – especially the elderly, students and those who came home from abroad – who can do so, to stay at home and follow the rules and recommendations, in order to slow down the mass infection.
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