The Budapest Jewish Congregation (BSZH) and the Unified Hungarian Jewish Congregation (EMIH) are marking the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Budapest ghetto in unconventional ways this year because of the epidemic.
According to the Hungarian Meteorology Service, snow and sleet are expected for the upcoming days; in the second half of the week, warmer weather comes.
A majority of Hungarians regard a vaccine as the only way to control the coronavirus pandemic, and more and more people are expressing a willingness to get inoculated, according to a survey by the Századvég Foundation released on Friday.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told public broadcaster Kossuth Rádió that it appeared the second wave of the epidemic had been reined in and recoveries outnumbered new infections.
The Hungarian vaccination capacity is much higher than the number of coronavirus vaccines – said Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Kossuth Radio on Friday.
Restrictions cannot be lifted due to the “scandalously” slow procurement of vaccines by the European Commission (EC), the foreign affairs minister said at a press conference in Budapest on Thursday.
István Tiborcz won a significant amount of HUF 215 million in non-refundable support from the European Union’s rural development funds, 24hu noted in the register of the government tender portal.
Fully 118 Covid patients, generally elderly and suffering from an underlying illness, died over the past 24 hours, while 1,926 new infections were officially registered, bringing the total number of infected to 347,636, koronavirus.gov.hu said.
Hungarian food safety authority Nébih on Thursday said had slaughtered 101,000 laying hens at a farm in Kerékegyháza, in central Hungary, after bird flu was identified there.
The government considers the European Union’s procurement and supply of vaccines coordinated from Brussels to be too slow and inadequate in volume, so it is ready to turn elsewhere to purchase vaccines, the government information centre has said.
