A senior British diplomat has died on assignment in Hungary aged just 37 after testing positive for coronavirus. Steven Dick, the Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy Hungary, passed away yesterday after contracting Covid-19.
The UK Foreign Office announced the tragic news in a statement, confirming the diplomat died on Tuesday. It said: "We are deeply saddened that a member of our team based at the British Embassy in Budapest has died after contracting coronavirus. "Steven Dick, 37, was serving as the Deputy Head of Mission.
He died in Hungary on Tuesday 24 March." Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has since paid tribute to the diplomat who was previously the Head of Corporate Strategy and Governance at the Department for Digital,