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Sixteen new cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed in Stockholm, according to local authorities, taking the total number of cases in Sweden to 52. Region Stockholm said:
Sixteen additional patients were found infected with Covid-19 ... The infected patients are being cared for in isolation to reduce the risk of further transmission.
Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has confirmed the nation’s first two cases, saying each involves an Iranian student. Writing on his Facebook page, he said:
We have the first infected individual, or rather two right away, whom we had to hospitalise. They have no symptoms yet but the fact of the infection has been confirmed.
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