Two female students, an American and an Ecuadorian, who have been tested positive for coronavirus in Prague, had recently visited Budapest.
They both study in Milan and travelled on Feb. 24 from northern Italy to Vienna where they stayed in a hotel. They then continued their journey to Budapest, director of the Prague Public Health Service Zde艌ka J谩grov谩 said. The American woman was tested positive on Sunday and the Ecuadorian woman鈥檚 first test was negative but a repeated test was positive. 鈥淲e have informed both Vienna and the Hungarian side,鈥� she added.
Meanwhile, Hungary鈥檚 opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) called on the authorities to check which places the two students had visited in Hungary and how many people they had contacted. Gergely Arat贸, DK鈥檚 deputy group leader, urged that 鈥渢he authorities should not wait for symptoms to appear鈥� but isolate anyone who may have communicated with the patients.
Chief medical officer Cec铆lia M眉ller said that Hungary鈥檚 health authorities were in close communication with their Czech counterparts to ascertain where the two infected students had been staying and to identify their contacts, and decide on further measures. She said that if the students had had no symptoms in Hungary 鈥渢here is an extremely low possibility鈥� that there would be further patients. She said that the virus was very sensitive and was not virile outside the human body. Answering a question, M眉ller said four athletes returning from a training camp in an area not affected by coronavirus in Iran were well and free of any symptoms. She said the Hungarian man quarantined on a ship off the Japanese coasts, who had tested positive, was also well, just as two other Hungarian employees on the same ship.
Tibor Lakatos, head of the government鈥檚 operative team, said there were still no confirmed coronavirus cases in Hungary, while at international airports and at border crossings the authorities were checking on arrivals. Over 91,000 cases have been reported worldwide, including 2,744 in Europe. Fifty-five people have died in Europe and 197 have so far recovered from the viral infection, he added.
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