Hungarian students back from N Italy in isolation

A group of 11 secondary school girls, two teachers and two drivers, who returned from northern Italy on Sunday night has been placed in a two-week quarantine in Budapest's St Laszlo hospital due to the coronavirus epidemic in that region, public broadcaster M1 reported. Janos Szlavik, the head of the National Institute of Hematology and Infectology at South Pest Central Hospital, said that both the students and the adults were free of any coronavirus symptoms. He said, however, that observation was necessary because the students had had their lodgings close to an area north-east of Milan now closed down by Italian authorities due to the growing number of coronavirus cases.