We are witnessing the third wave of the pandemic, with the number of people infected rising exponentially day by day, Cecília Müller said in an operational newsletter online Monday. She added that we have been identifying an increasing number of infected people for about two weeks now.
Opposition LMP will submit a resolution proposal to parliament to protect local municipalities from “government restrictions”, group leader László Lóránt Keresztes said.
Fully 48 Covid patients, generally elderly and suffering from an underlying illness, died over the past 24 hours, while 2,623 new infections were officially registered, bringing the total number of infected to 405,646, koronavirus.gov.hu said.
Countries must quickly purchase as many coronavirus vaccines as possible, regardless of whether they come from the East or the West, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview to German news portal Focus Online.
Parliament has passed a bill on extending the special legal order in connection with measures to protect the country against the coronavirus pandemic.
Today, the National Assembly decides on the extension of the emergency situation, as well as on a proposal previously objected to by the Head of State for unconstitutionality.
We are in the ascending phase of the third wave of the coronavirus epidemic, the national chief medical officer told the public media.
Innovation and Technology Minister László Palkovics outlined plans to transform the Székesfehérvár-Börgönd airport, one of the country’s oldest, into a centre for recreational flight, instruction and research, after a meeting with local leaders on Saturday.
András Fekete-Győr, the leader of the Momentum party, will run in the primary for the joint opposition’s candidate for prime minister, the party said on social media on Sunday. Momentum said the 2022 general elections must “not only be about replacing [Prime Minister] Viktor Orbán”.
If the future of the country’s youth is important, the government should make a number of changes to the education system, the co-leader of opposition LMP said on Saturday.
