The downward phase of the second coronavirus wave came to a halt, and some epidemiological data began to rise slowly again, the national chief medical officer said at a press conference online on Thursday by the operative board responsible for controlling the coronavirus epidemic.
Fully 97 Covid patients, generally elderly and suffering from an underlying illness, died over the past 24 hours, while 1,862 new infections were officially registered, bringing the total number of infected to 381,875, koronavirus.gov.hu said.
Hungary expects to take delivery of the first shipment of China’s Sinopharm vaccine next week, Gergely Gulyás, the prime minister’s chief of staff, told a briefing.
The government will introduce certificates of immunity from Covid for people who have been inoculated against or recovered from the disease, the prime minister’s chief of staff said.
Temperature may drop below -20 Celsius in the northern part of the country.
The epidemic will turn out a little differently than expected, Cecília Müller said in a briefing from the operational board on Wednesday. For 10 days now, the epidemic curve has not been moving downwards, but a constant number has formed and the data do not change favorably. The reason for this is being investigated by […]
In view of the expected extremely cold weather, a red code signal will come into force at ten o’clock on Friday morning, and accordingly, homeless people will have to be admitted to residential social institutions not reserved for them, the State Secretary for Social Affairs of the Ministry of Human Resources (Emmi) announced in Budapest […]
A representative poll conducted for the Hungarian Nation by the Institute of Perspectives found that the proportion of those who consider the government’s epidemiological measures to be sufficiently strict has been steadily above 50 percent since November.
The European Commission has expressed concern over the case of Hungary’s Klubrádió, a private broadcaster popular with opposition listeners that will go off the air at the end of the week after losing an appeal to extend its licence.
The opposition Jobbik party said it has filed an environment pollution report with authorities over communal waste drifting on the Hungarian section of the river Tisza and its tributaries, the Kraszna and Szamos rivers, near Hungary’s eastern borders.
