The number of foreign visitors to Hungary was down by 50% in the third quarter of this year compared to the same period last year and they spent 54% less, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said in a report.
Fully 180 Covid patients, generally elderly and suffering from an underlying illness, died over the past 24 hours, while 1,238 infected were officially registered, bringing the total number of infections to 306,368, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Tuesday.
The vaccination of health-care workers against Covid-19 will start on December 27, with 5,500 doses of vaccine expected to arrive from the EU within days and further shipments to follow soon after, the prime minister’s chief of staff has said.
The government has decided to suspend the curfew on Christmas Eve, which runs from 24 to 25 December, the deputy head of the operational board for the epidemic response said in an online press conference on Monday.
Hungary’s public media has raised a total 185 million forints (EUR 513,000) this year, to be spent on a new centre providing diagnoses and therapies for children with autism, public media foundation MTVA reported.
The National Bank of Hungary (NBH) said it started public consultations on a draft of green recommendations it is making to lenders to manage environmental risks.
Water management experts have removed more than 400 tonnes of waste contaminated with oil at a rainwater canal at Szigetszentmiklós that leads into the Ráckeve branch of the Danube in the outskirts of Budapest.
President János Áder has asked the Constitutional Court for a review of an amendment proposal to a law on waste management approved by parliament last week, the President’s Office said.
Fully 183 Covid patients, generally elderly and suffering from an underlying illness, died over the past 24 hours, while 2,141 infected were officially registered, bringing the total number of infections to 305,130, koronavirus.gov.hu said.
Hungary’s six opposition parties will run on a joint list in the 2022 general elections, the parties said in a joint statement.
