Fully 158 Covid patients, generally elderly and suffering from an underlying illness, died over the past 24 hours, while 3,093 new infections were officially registered, bringing the total number of infected to 397,116, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Friday.
We are witnessing the third wave – said Viktor Orbán on the morning program of Kossuth radio on Friday morning. Two things are running in competition with each other: if more people are vaccinated, we will save lives, if the curve of the third wave gets stronger, we will lose lives, the prime minister said.
The cities of Békéscsaba and Gyula, in south-eastern Hungary, are poised to become the centres of aircraft manufacturing in the country’s defence industry, the Minister of Innovation and Technology has said.
Hungary’s rising coronavirus case numbers show that the country is “on the cusp of a third wave of the epidemic”, the chief medical officer said on Thursday.
The government’s National Consultation survey on conditions for lifting restrictions after the coronavirus epidemic is under way, the government’s website said.
The proportion of people living in extreme poverty in Hungary has dropped from 23.4% to 8.7% in the past decade, the Ministry of Human Resources (Emmi) said on Thursday, citing Eurostat data.
The opposition parties have accused the government of using the vaccine registration system for “data collection” and called on it to come up with a clear action plan to restart the country “instead of propaganda consultation”.
Fully 104 Covid patients, generally elderly and suffering from an underlying illness, died over the past 24 hours, while 2,853 new infections were officially registered, bringing the total number of infected to 394,023, koronavirus.gov.hu said.
A government committee comprising representatives of the Prime Minister’s Office, the interior ministry and the finance ministry will meet with representative bodies of every local municipality to discuss their finances, the head the PM’s office said.
The concentration of zinc, copper, aluminium and iron has been below threshold value in water samples taken from the Szamos River near Csenger at the Romanian border, in north-eastern Hungary, the national disaster management authority OKF said on Thursday.
