Hungarian universities are the clear winners of the European Union recovery fund, with 1,509 billion forints (EUR 4.2bn) of the 6,000 billion forints available to Hungary to be spent on developments at universities between 2021 and 2026, the minister of innovation and technology said.
The rate of natural decline in the population increased in 2020, with a 3.4 percent rise in births and a 7.7 percent increase in deaths compared with the previous year, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said on Friday.
Consultations on a 23 billion forint subsidy programme for corporate investments that boost Hungary’s level of self-sufficiency in the production of medical supplies have started, the Innovation and Technology Ministry said.
Fully 83 Covid patients, generally elderly and suffering from an underlying illness, died over the past 24 hours, while 1,459 new infections were officially registered, bringing the total number of infected to 364,909, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Friday.
Hungary donates 2,000 doses of rabies vaccine to Transcarpathia’s Red Cross at the Záhony border station on 28 January 2020.
Hungary and Poland continue to oppose “EU-sponsored migrant settlement quotas” because they believe repeated waves of migration pose a health risk in Europe, Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s foreign minister, said in Warsaw.
European border agency Frontex hopes it can soon resume border control operations carried out jointly with the Hungarian authorities along the Hungarian-Serbian border, the agency’s spokesman told MTI.
Due to the European Union’s sluggish procurement procedure, EU-bought vaccines will not suffice for mass inoculation, Gergely Gulyás, the PM’s chief of staff said at a news briefing. Hungary is working to achieve the 70% inoculation rate set by the European Commission as soon as possible, he said. However, it will also need vaccines from […]
Less cold but wetter weather is expected on the last weekend of January compared to the previous days. Rain and, in some cases, torrential rain and snow are also expected, according to the National Meteorological Service’s national medium-term forecast.
A campaign-like vaccination of people living in nursing homes and other residential institutions began on Thursday, the head of the National Center for Public Health’s epidemiology department announced on Thursday’s online press conference of the coronavirus control body on behalf of the operative board.
