The government is making a third round of vaccines available from August 1 — to be administered four months after the second — and vaccination will be made mandatory for health-care workers, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told public broadcaster Kossuth Rádió, citing the spread of the Delta variant.
Hungary’s tourism agency hopes that as many people as possible will be in Budapest on the August 20 national holiday to witness the “biggest ever” festive fireworks display, Zoltán Guller, the head of the agency, said on Thursday.
German defence industry company Rheinmetall inaugurated the first phase of a combat vehicle test track at ZalaZone, in western Hungary, on Thursday.
Fully 49 new coronavirus infections were registered over 24 hours, while there were zero fatalities, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Thursday.
The European Commission has admitted that its real objection to Hungary’s child protection law is that the “LGBTQ lobby” is not allowed into Hungarian schools or kindergartens, Judit Varga, the minister of justice, wrote on Facebook on Thursday.
The European Commission has filed a lawsuit with the Court of Justice of the EU against Hungary for what the commission sees as Hungary’s unlawfully restricting the access of migrants to refugee procedures.
The European Commission has launched infringement procedures against Hungary over its child protection law as well as the insistence by the authorities that a children’s book with LGBTQ content should carry a content warning.
Concerning the possibility of mandatory vaccination, the prime minister’s chief of staff said that under the constitution “everybody is responsible for themselves”.
Hungary continues to be one of the safest countries in Europe in terms of Covid-19, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office has said.
Opinions are divided on whether or not a third vaccination should be given, and the WHO has also published a skeptical resolution to this effect. However, there is no need to be afraid of this, so the government allows the third vaccination to be taken, but they recommend that it happens four months after the […]
