The concentration of the coronavirus in wastewater is rising again, the National Center for Public Health (NNK) announced on its website on Wednesday.
Fully 21,840 new Covid-19 cases were registered last week, while 96 people died in connection with the virus, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Wednesday in a round-up of last week’s data.
The Paks nuclear power plant has the capacity to provide energy to cover the total need of all Hungarian households, the leader of the opposition Mi Hazánk (Our Homeland) party said on Wednesday.
The national medical officer will issue a third-degree heat alert for the entire country from Thursday to Saturday midnight, based on the forecast of the meteorological service and on the recommendation of the National Center for Public Health.
Opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) lawmaker Zoltán Komáromi said there was an “alarming” shortage of GPs in Hungary, on Tuesday. Recent figures by the national hospital directorate showed that there were 1,093 unoccupied medical positions in the country, of which 687 were GPs.
The number of Hungarians infected with Covid-19 is increasing but few of them require hospitalisation, János Szlávik, chief infectologist at the South Pest Centrum Hospital, told public broadcaster M1 on Tuesday, adding that “a few days’ rest” was usually enough to recover.
More and more people are infected, but only a few people are hospitalized due to the coronavirus, usually, people can get over the disease in a few days – said the chief infectious disease doctor of the Dél-Pest Centrumkórház in the current program of the M1 channel on Tuesday.
The four-day celebration of Hungary’s national holiday on August 20th “can be regarded as a festival”, Zoltán Kovács, the state secretary for international relations and communications, said, adding that the event celebrating St. Stephen’s Day drew 2 million visitors last year.
Six opposition parliamentary groups have called for a special session of parliament to be convened on Aug. 8 to discuss their proposals to mitigate “the cost-of-living crisis” they say has gripped the country.
On Monday, we can prepare for a lot of sunshine in addition to cumulus clouds. Showers and thunderstorms may occur in the afternoon in places on the western side of Transdanubia.
