The Socialists are recommending that the government adopt a practice similar to the one in Austria and ensure everybody five Covid-19 rapid home tests a month, free of charge, a lawmaker of the opposition party said on Sunday.
The opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) is calling for the immediate inoculation of kindergarten and créche staff with a Covid-19 vaccine that has been approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), a party leader said at an online press conference on Saturday.
A total of 201,087 people filled out the government’s National Consultation survey on possible scenarios for lifting pandemic restrictions by Saturday morning, the government portal kormany.hu said.
Hungary will have enough vaccine to inoculate more than 465,000 people against Covid-19 over a period of two weeks starting on Wednesday, a senior government official has said.
Fully 47 Covid patients, generally elderly and suffering from an underlying illness, died over the past 24 hours, while 2,912 new infections were officially registered, bringing the total number of infected to 403,023, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Sunday.
Health-care workers provide “sacred service”, Human Resources Minister Miklós Kásler said, marking the national day of health-care professionals.
An analysis by Hungary’s public health authority has shown that China’s Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine conforms to the manufacturer’s specifications, the chief medical officer said, adding that the jab could be put to use once it is approved by the drug regulator.
The Centrist Democrat International (CDI) has adopted a resolution condemning the Hungarian left-wing parties’ cooperation with nationalist Jobbik and calling for zero tolerance of far-right, xenophobic and anti-Semitic views, Zsolt Németh, the Fidesz head of parliament’s foreign affairs committee, said.
In an interview with public broadcaster Kossuth Rádió, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán noted that Péter Szijjártó, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, had predicted a “race for vaccines” as far back as November and had recommended that Hungary hold talks on purchasing vaccines from all over the world to get ahead of a projected […]
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán encouraged Hungarians to get themselves inoculated against the coronavirus, warning that the country was on the cusp of a third wave of infections.
