The Dutch man who – by his own account – came into contact with an infected person in the Netherlands two weeks ago is already being tested in the Szent László Hospital, and at this point in time, he is not feeling well.
At its meeting today, the Operational Corps responsible for the containment of the coronavirus infection decided that any patient care capacity available at the Szent László Hospital of the South Pest Central Hospital – National Institute for Haematology and Disease Control must be vacated with immediate effect, and patients currently in the hospital must be relocated to other health care providers.
Order is the basis of freedom, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stressed on Friday at a ceremonial staff meeting of the 100-year-old police force held in the Parliament Building.
After the Friday meeting of the Operational Corps, Chief Medical Officer Cecília Müller said disease control investigations and contact searches had been launched in the case of all four infected foreigners.
“The EU has assured Greece of its full solidarity with relation to the fact that it must face major migration pressure because of the large number of migrants arriving from the direction of Turkey”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Friday in Zagreb following an extraordinary meeting of EU foreign ministers.
In Hungary so far four foreign nationals have been diagnosed with the coronavirus infection. These are individual cases, and the goal is to prevent the development of group cases, the head of the Operational Corps responsible for the containment of the coronavirus infection announced at a press conference held after the corps meeting on Friday in Budapest.
In the interest of containing the coronavirus infection, the Operational Corps adopted further measures at its meeting held today. At the recommendation of the Operational Corps, the government has suspended the issuance of visas to Iranian nationals, Tibor Lakatos, the head of the Operational Corps responsible for the containment of the coronavirus infection announced.
At the Operational Corps’ Friday press conference, János Szlávik, head physician of the South Pest Central Hospital – National Institute for Haematology and Infectious Diseases said one of the Iranian university students is showing mild symptoms, while the other one had a severe cough, but is fine now. His girlfriend, however, will remain in hospital for some time as expected.
In the interest of the security of Hungary and the Hungarian people, the government is extending the state of emergency due to mass immigration, with special regard to the migrant flow that has started from Turkey, and its security and epidemiological implications.
In departure from its 2015 migration policy, Greece has decided to protect its borders against violent, aggressive and armed attacks, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said on Kossuth Radio’s programme ‘Good morning, Hungary’.