- Title: Hungary prolongs lockdown indefinitely as infections near 1,000
- Date: 9th April 2020
- Summary: BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (APRIL 9, 2020) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF CARE HOME WHERE MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE WERE INFECTED WITH CORONAVIRUS, AMBULANCE IN GROUNDS SIGN OF HOME ON GATE WARNING SIGNS ON GATE AMBULANCE STAFF WEARING PROTECTIVE GEAR STANDING IN GROUNDS
- Embargoed: 23rd April 2020 16:49
- Keywords: Hungarian
- Location: BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
- City: BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
- Country: Hungary
- Topics: Health/Medicine
- Reuters ID: LVA001C8RU7GN
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Hungary has prolonged a nationwide lockdown indefinitely to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Thursday (April 9) asking citizens to observe the order despite the Easter holiday.
Meanwhile, more than 100 people were infected in a Budapest retirement home, Surgeon General Cecilia Muller said on Thursday. The state news agency MTI quoted Muller as saying five of those people had died. A fleet of ambulances took affected residents to hospital.
Orban said the lockdown, introduced last month, had been successful in slowing the spread of the coronavirus and would be reviewed on a weekly basis.
Hungary has officially recorded 980 confirmed cases and 66 deaths in the pandemic, although the government has acknowledged the number of actual cases is probably much higher.
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