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BRITISH DIPLOMAT DIES OF CORONAVIRUS IN HUNGARY

 

Britain’s deputy ambassador to Hungary has been the tenth victim of the novel coronavirus in the country, the British embassy said confirming press reports. Steven Dick was aged 37 and died in Budapest on Tuesday, bringing the number of victims to ten.
The number of people confirmed to be infected has grown to 226, koronavirus.gov.hu said. Of the 226 confirmed cases, 10 are Iranian, 2 are British, one is Kazakh, another Vietnamese, and the remaining 212 are Hungarian, it said. The epidemic in Hungary is at the stage of transmissions in communities, the website said. Infected people can be found all over the country and anyone could be already infected, it added.