The disaster management authority has prepared a plan to increase the number of hospital beds, a “plan we will probably not need,” the prime minister’s chief of staff, Gergely Gulyás told a news briefing. Regarding the inoculation campaign, Gulyás said it was imperative to “get vaccines from wherever we can”, adding that Hungary’s inoculation rate […]
Hungary is not yet in a position to start easing lockdown measures imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus, the prime minister’s chief of staff has said.
Fully 207 patients, generally elderly with an underlying condition, died over the past 24 hours, and 6,502 new coronavirus infections were officially registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Thursday.
The Budapest landmark Chain Bridge gets closed for pedestrians at the start of revamp on 17 March 2021.
We have to get vaccinated! – Lajos Kósa urged in his morning Facebook post.
Hungary’s László Lovász has been awarded the 2021 Abel Prize, an honour given out by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and regarded as one of the highest honours in mathematics.
Gergely Karácsony, Budapest’s mayor and the co-leader of the opposition Párbeszéd party, has said he backs an initiative aimed at giving Hungarians living abroad the right to vote by mail.
Norway is providing Hungary with 348.5 million euros of financing with a view to strengthening Hungary’s combat defence capabilities through Export Credit Norway (ECN) and the Norwegian Export Credit Guarantee Agency (GIEK), the Ministry of Finance said on Wednesday.
Hungarian authorities will issue the European immunity certificate to all Hungarian citizens inoculated with any type of the vaccines licenced for use in the country, the government’s communications centre (KTK) said in a statement.
Hungary has taken delivery of another 100,000 doses of China’s Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine, Péter Szijjártó, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, said on Wednesday.
