On Thursday afternoon, thunderstorms hit the country from the northwest due to an incoming cold front, the National Meteorological Service said. Thunderstorms in Northern Transdanubia may be organized into a system, which is expected to gradually weaken to the east and south-east.
Hungary has won funding of 6 billion forints (EUR 15m) for developing and operating a 20 petaflop supercomputer, the Ministry of Technology and Industry (TIM) said on Wednesday.
Fully 1,636 new Covid-19 cases were registered last week, while 23 people died in connection with the virus, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Wednesday in a round-up of last week’s data.
Last Friday, a four-year-old girl from Tiszaderzs, who was locked in a bus heated to 50 degrees in Tomajmonostora for half a day, died at a children’s clinic in Debrecen until the driver returned to her vehicle, which he thought was empty.
A proposal on holding the European parliamentary and municipal elections in Hungary on the same day will be submitted to lawmakers next Tuesday, Máté Kocsis, ruling Fidesz’s group leader, has said.
Low-cost airline Wizz Air said on Tuesday that for tickets purchased before July 1, the company will not pass on the costs of the tax on extra profits introduced by the government to customers.
Tragedy at Lake Balaton: a 14-year-old girl lost her life on a class trip.
Lawmakers of green opposition LMP criticised the government over its rejection of the party’s proposal on setting up a 300 billion forint (EUR 753m) fund to support the insulation and heating modernisation of residential buildings.
A 14-year-old boy at Lajos Kossuth Primary School in Hatvan became sick and died in the school.
The upgrade of Hungary’s Paks nuclear plant has reached another milestone: it has received the soil stabilisation permit from the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Saturday.
