Altogether three patients have died in the past 24 hours, all of whom were elderly and had underlying illnesses, bringing the total number of fatalities to 470, while the number of registered novel coronavirus infections in Hungary increased by 42 to 3,598, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Wednesday morning.
Hungary’s first safari park is to open in Szada, near Budapest.
Finance Minister Mihály Varga has urged the European Union to adopt quick, proportionate and fair measures as part of its management of the bloc’s coronavirus crisis.
Parliament has passed a law codifying a commitment to the upgrade of the Budapest-Belgrade railway line. The assembly also backed an agreement between the Hungarian and Chinese governments on implementing and financing the project.
Visegrad Group leaders and German Chancellor Angela Merkel held a videoconference summit focusing on the novel coronavirus crisis.
The government is refusing to accept the European Court’s ruling that Hungary’s transit zone is a place of detention, and it will examine the matter based on the country’s constitution, the prime minister’s chief domestic security adviser said.
Industry representatives and trade unions have expressed their support for government plans to introduce an energy efficiency obligation scheme in Hungary next year, Innovation and Technology Minister László Palkovics said at the first, online, meeting of a relevant working group.
Applications for the government’s wage subsidy scheme has jumped over the past two weeks, a Ministry of Innovation and Technology official said.
By introducing special volunteer military reservist service, the Hungarian Armed Forces aims to play a key role in the creation of new jobs during the novel coronavirus epidemic, the defence minister said.
The government is allocating another 150 billion forints (EUR 423.7m) to the full revamping of tourist accommodations and other developments, the head of the Hungarian Tourism Agency said.
