Hungarian Coronavirus Cases May Be Manyfold

The actual number of patients can be approximately twenty times that of the identified infected in Hungary, claims the Rector of the Semmelweis Medical University of Budapest (SOTE).

Rector Béla Merkely said on the commercial channel ATV that the epidemic cannot be combated with a single measure, many things must work together to curb it. One of the tools is wearing a mask, which he would make mandatory, he himself always wears one indoors.

He added that in the first wave, the coronavirus had not yet circulated, it had not had much chance of infecting anyone, but since it was introduced, it has circulated tenfold. This means that the true number of those infected is roughly twenty times that currently identified. "We're not far from a hundred thousand. In the last ten days, more people have been infected than in the first phase of the epidemic," he said.