Students tested positive for coronavirus in Prague recently visited Hungary – UPDATE

Two female students, an American and an Ecuadorian, who have been tested positive for coronavirus in Prague, had recently visited Budapest.

They both study in Milan and travelled on Feb. 24 from northern Italy to Vienna where they stayed in a hotel. They then continued their journey to Budapest, director of the Prague Public Health Service Zdenka Jagrova said on Tuesday.

The American woman was tested positive on Sunday and the Ecuadorian woman’s first test was negative but a repeated test was positive.

“We have informed both Vienna and the Hungarian side,” she added.

Meanwhile, Hungary’s opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) called on the authorities to check which places the two students had visited in Hungary and how many people they had contacted.

Gergely Arató, DK’s deputy group leader, urged that “the authorities should not wait for symptoms to appear” but isolate anyone who may have communicated with the patients.

Chief medical officer Cecília Muller said that Hungary’s health authorities were in close communication with their Czech counterparts to ascertain where the two infected students had been staying and to identify their contacts, and decide on further measures. She said that