Hungarian research into the antibody to the novel coronavirus is showing promising results, and doctors have started to administer it to a patient on Thursday, Chief Medical Officer Cecília Müller said.
A soldier is disinfecting one of the rooms of a retirement home in Nyíregyháza.
The first phase of protective measures against the novel coronavirus will end next weekend and the government will introduce new rules to replace the curfew restrictions in order to gradually restart life, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said.
The number of confirmed people infected with the coronavirus in Hungary is 2,443.
President János Áder and First Lady Anita Herczeg donated blood on 23 April 2020.
The government is extending the timeframe of restrictions on movement introduced to combat the novel coronavirus epidemic until May 3, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office said.
The head of the Prime Minister’s Office said the decision to order hospitals to vacate 50% of their beds and have 8,000 functioning ventilators ready had been a “strictly professional one”, adding that the government was prepared for a worst-case scenario.
An advocate general of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has said that accommodating asylum seekers in the transit zone on the Hungarian-Serbian border near the town of Röszke was equivalent to unlawful detention.
Hungary “has not received any additional funding” from the European Union for measures in connection with the novel coronavirus epidemic, an innovation and technology ministry official said.
The European Commission has approved a draft of an amendment of a government decree on groundwork for the upgrade of the Paks nuclear power plant, János Süli, the minister without portfolio in charge of the project, said.
