The criminal trial of the case of a ship collision with a sightseeing boat on the Danube claiming 28 lives has been postponed to begin on September 8, a municipal court said, one day ahead of the accident’s first anniversary.
Wage growth for full-time workers in Hungary slowed to an annual 9% in March, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said. Wage growth slowed for the fourth month in a row. In absolute terms, the average gross monthly wage stood at 400,400 forints (EUR 1,147).
The number of television advertising spots on Hungarian-language channels has fallen by almost one-fourth since early March, before Hungary went into lockdown to contain the spread of novel coronavirus, data from the National Media and Infocommunications Authority (NMHH) show.
A decree published in the latest issue of the official gazette Magyar Közlöny allows travel agents to issue vouchers instead of paying cash for cancellations made because of the coronavirus pandemic, but only if the clients who have cancelled opt in.
A ventilator designed by a team at Budapest’s Technical University, developed in the space of two months, is being put into production.
Hungary will ban single-use plastics from July 1, 2021, half a year later than originally planned.
A court in Tatabánya, in northern Hungary, handed a sentence of two years and ten months to a Romanian national, who had been apprehended with 10 Syrian illegal migrants crammed in his car, in a binding ruling.
Restaurants in Budapest will be allowed to open indoor areas from Friday after they were forced to close them due to the novel coronavirus epidemic.
Six patients have died in the past 24 hours, all of them elderly and suffering from underlying illnesses, bringing the total number of fatalities to 505, while novel coronavirus infections in Hungary have increased by 22 to 3,793, koronavirus.gov.hu said.
Hungary’s population decline slowed in the first quarter of the year as the number of births increased by 6.5% and the number of deaths decreased by 8.5% compared with the same period last year, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) reported.
