Outdoor Venues Opened on Saturday
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in a radio interview on Friday announced that 3.5 million people have been vaccinated in Hungary, paving the way for outdoor venues to open from Saturday morning.
Adam
National
Opening – “A pint of beer is waiting for me on my terrace.”
Three and a half million of our compatriots have been vaccinated. We are restarting Hungary, Viktor Orbán posted on his Facebook page on Friday morning. The Prime Minister recalled that, as a result, the terraces of the restaurants were reopening. The prime minister then went to Kossuth Radio for his usual Friday interview.
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Nearly 3.5M Vaccinated
The number of Hungarians vaccinated against Covid-19 will probably reach 3.5 million on Friday, and restaurant and bar terraces may open the following day, the prime minister’s chief of staff said.