A heat alert will be in effect in Hungary from early Saturday until Monday midnight, as mean temperatures are expected to exceed 25°C on all three days, the national health and disaster management authorities have said.
By the end-June deadline, 154,100 Hungarian citizens had applied for a permanent residence permit in the UK, fresh Home Office figures released on Thursday show. The British government has said that in justified cases, it will accept applications submitted beyond the deadline for an indefinite period.
One Covid patient died over the past 24 hours, while 104 new coronavirus infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Friday. So far 5,668,993 people have received a first jab, while 5,498,222 have been fully vaccinated.
The opposition LMP is turning to the Kúria, Hungary’s supreme court, over the election committee’s rejection of its referendum question on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the party’s co-leader said on Friday.
Third vaccine shots are necessary due to the fast spread of new mutations such as the delta variant, especially when it comes to the elderly and people already suffering from an illness, a government official has said.
The weather heats up a few degrees further on weekends, with up to 36 degrees Celsius on Sundays. In addition, there will be a lot of sunshine, showers and thunderstorms can only be scattered, according to the National Meteorological Service’s national medium-term forecast.
Péter Komka, the photographer of MTI, captured the meteor shower from Nógrádmegyer on the night of August 12, 2021.
Fully 62% of Hungarian employees are confident of 5-plus years of job security, according to a recent survey.
Pegasus Airlines diverted its Istanbul-Amsterdam flight to Budapest after a passenger fell ill.
A group of some 20 migrants on the Serbian side of the border threw bricks aimed at police on the Hungarian side late on Wednesday, police.hu reported.
