A recent trend of growing violence against teachers in schools has made it necessary to take resolute action and appoint school guards, a state secretary of the Human Resources Ministry said.
The opposition LMP has called on the government to quit “megalomaniacal investment projects” in the Balaton region of western Hungary and concentrate on preserving its environmental and cultural values instead.
The opposition Socialists urged the other opposition parties to begin talks on coordinating for the 2022 general election as early as this summer.
Three patients — with underlying illnesses — have died in the past 24 hours and the number of registered infections has risen by 7 to 4,114, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Wednesday morning.
The number of registered jobseekers in Hungary fell in the week of June 15, the first time a drop was registered since measures to contain the coronavirus epidemic were introduced, a Ministry of Innovation and Technology (ITM) official said, adding that this indicated a turnaround on the labour market.
Hungary’s public media authority (NMHH) has warned that social media is rife with fake news. The authority said in a statement that 53% of respondents to a survey had come across fake news on the internet, with 47% saying they saw fake news on social media.
Hungarian teachers will receive a pay rise averaging 10% in August, the daily Magyar Nemzet said on Tuesday.
A second wave of the novel coronavirus epidemic “may be unavoidable”, so it is crucial that people continue keeping a distance from each other, the head of the National Haematology and Infectology Institute said.
Warmer weather comes this week; the highest temperatures could hit 30 Celsius degrees – says the Hungarian Meteorology Service.
Well-known and respected Hungarian horticultural engineer and television personality dr. György Bálint died yesterday evening. He would have been 101 years old on 28th July, 2020.
