Hungary to provide 530,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine against coronavirus to Bangladesh, the foreign and foreign affairs minister said in a video uploaded to his Facebook page on Wednesday morning.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told an international press conference on Tuesday that if necessary the government will introduce pandemic restrictions for New Year’s Eve, adding, at the same time, that it appeared Covid case numbers were flattening.
Altogether 132 patients died of a Covid-related illness during the past 24 hours, while 1,985 new coronavirus infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Tuesday.
Ruling Fidesz is nominating Katalin Novák, the minister for family affairs, for Hungary’s next president, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced on Tuesday.
Hungary’s government will continue to base its pandemic response measures on the vaccination of residents, the prime minister said on Tuesday.
The project of building two new blocks to the Paks nuclear power plant is being implemented as planned so that they be able to start operations in 2029-2030, Aleksandr Merten, the deputy head of Rosatom-auxiliary ASE engineering, told a panel discussion in Budapest on Monday.
The public media’s charity programme dubbed Good to be Good has raised funds totalling 345 million forints (EUR 939,000), the sum to be donated to the Regőczi Fundation, set up by President János Áder and First Lady Anita Herczegh to support children who lost parents in the coronavirus pandemic.
Hungary’s National Public Health Centre (NNK) on Monday said it has so far identified 15 cases of the omicron variant of the coronavirus and is testing more samples suspected of containing the variant.
Hungary’s opposition parties have launched a signature drive in provincial cities in a bid to hold a referendum on whether a campus for China’s Fudan University should be built and whether the jobseekers’ allowance should be extended to 270 days.
Pope Francis is sending a statue of St Joseph to be auctioned at a charity auction organised by Hungarian public media in support of Hungarian orphans who have lost parents to the coronavirus pandemic, Beatrix Siklósi, the director of public broadcaster Kossuth Rádió, said.
