The government has earmarked more than 15 billion forints (EUR 43m) for the purchase of additional medical equipment as part of protection measures against the novel coronavirus epidemic in Hungary.
Deserted street in downtown Budapest on 25 March 2020.
Hungarian oil and gas company MOL has repurposed its lubricants unit MOL Lub to make sanitiser in support of measures against novel coronavirus.
The government has banned the export of a drug ingredient used for treating novel coronavirus patients, the government information centre said.
The army has built a tent hospital in a single day in the courtyard of Budapest’s St. László Hospital, Ferenc Korom, the commander of the Hungarian Armed Forces, said in an interview to public television.
Britain’s deputy ambassador to Hungary has been the tenth victim of the novel coronavirus in the country, the British embassy said confirming press reports.
Dedicated units are being set up at the level of primary care for patients suffering from acute respiratory symptoms, the chief medical officer said.
The number of people breaching quarantine regulations is growing, the operative board said. Tibor Lakatos, the head of the operative board’s emergency centre, told a press conference that the authorities have ordered home quarantine in 4,207 cases so far.
Hungary’s population decline slowed by 47% in January 2020 after 9.4% more births and 17% fewer deaths were registered compared with the same period last year, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said.
Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air has grounded around 85% of its fleet due to travel restrictions introduced by governments to contain the spread of novel coronavirus, the airline said.
