Expressions of “coronavirus denial” greatly hinder protection mechanisms, an official of the National Public Health Centre told public television M1. Ágnes Galgóczi said that prevention based on a broad cooperation was being jeopardised by such views shared on internet portals, social media, as well as in schools. “It is very important that everybody should grasp […]
Fully 70 Covid-19 patients, most of them elderly with underlying illnesses, have died in Hungary over the past 24 hours while 3,581 have been officially diagnosed with coronavirus, bringing the total number of registered infections to 82,780, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Monday. The death toll has risen to 1,889, while 20,476 have made a recovery. There […]
Hungary is in talks with China, Russia and Israel on buying vaccines against the coronavirus once they are developed, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Monday. Data regarding the spread of the virus is “worrying” worldwide, Szijjártó said. A vaccine could lead to a breakthrough in combating the pandemic, he said. Research is in its […]
The government is weighing the reintroduction of each of the restrictive measures it introduced during the first wave of the coronavirus epidemic in the spring, the minister for family affairs has said.
The government has called a tender for 500 million forints (EUR 1.4m) in support for cultural initiatives of ethnic minorities in Hungary, state secretary for church and ethnic minority ties Miklós Soltész said in Tata, west of the capital, on Sunday. Speaking at the inauguration of a renovated Stations of the Cross, Soltész said applications […]
Fully 69 Covid-19 patients, most of them with underlying illnesses, have died in Hungary over the past 24 hours while 3,878 have been officially diagnosed with coronavirus, bringing the total number of registered infections to 79,199, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Sunday. The death toll has risen to 1,819, while 20,078 have made a recovery. There are […]
Or early January, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday. In his regular interview to public broadcaster Kossuth Radio, Orbán said that those suffering from chronic illnesses and the elderly population most vulnerable to the virus could be vaccinated around January. Mass doses of the vaccine are expected to arrive in April, he added. The […]
Fully 65 Covid-19 patients with underlying illnesses have died in Hungary over the past 24 hours while 3,286 have been officially diagnosed with coronavirus, bringing the total number of registered infections to 71,413, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Friday. The death toll has risen to 1,699, while 17,953 have made a recovery. There are 51,761 active infections […]
The Hungarian government is extending face mask requirements to restaurants and entertainment venues from next week, the deputy head of the operative board responsible for handling the coronavirus epidemic said. The new regulations enter into effect on November 2, Róbert Kiss told a press conference. Under the new rules, members of the public will be […]
Fully 56 Covid-19 patients have died over the past 24 hours in Hungary — most of them elderly and suffering from an underlying illness — while 2,194 have been officially diagnosed with coronavirus, bringing the total number of registered infections to 68,127, koronavirus.gov.hu said. The death toll has risen to 1,634, while 17,469 have made […]
