Coronavirus - Chief medical officer: Response measures working

Hungary's response measures to the novel coronavirus epidemic have so far proven successful in keeping the number of Covid-19 cases low, the chief medical officer said on Monday. Hungary ranks in the bottom third of European Union countries in terms of its coronavirus death toll, Cecilia Muller told a regular online press briefing. So far, the death rate has not been higher than the average death rate of past years, she said. Nearly half of those who have died of Covid-19 were older than 80, Muller said. The number of fatalities in elderly care homes has reached 100. Altogether 67 of those who have tested positive for the virus were younger than 19, Muller said. Many of them have recovered and none of them have suffered permanent damage to their health, she added. She said two of the active cases were minors, adding that their conditions were satisfactory.