Guest nights at commercial accommodations in Hungary dropped by 64.6% year-on-year to 697,000 in March because of a lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus, data released by the Central Statistical Office (KSH) show.
The authorities are distributing four weeks of supplies to staff of health-care services, retirement homes and social institutions, which are about to get 2 million face masks, 307,000 surgical gloves and 7,000 protective gowns, a spokesman for the board coordinating efforts against the Covid-19 epidemic said.
Regarding equipment needed for the epidemic protection efforts, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said he was “constantly monitoring” the situation to ensure no one was left untreated for lack of equipment.
A further easing of novel coronavirus-related restrictions will not come before the end of next week, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said.
A plane was scheduled to land in Budapest on Thursday with 120 Hungarians aboard returning mostly from North America, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó told MTI.
The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Hungary has been significantly decreasing for several days now, according to the chief medical officer.
A US-based Hungarian immunologist has developed a medication he says could prevent the cytokine storm, an overreaction of the immune system.
The number of patients with active coronavirus infections in Hungary has been declining for the second consecutive day, Cecília Müller, the chief medical officer, said.
Renovation work gets under way at the Budapest Nyugati railway station.
Hungary’s parliament adopted a political declaration, sponsored by the Christian Democrats, on rejecting the Istanbul Convention.
