An association of trade unions of medical university employees on Friday called on President János Áder not to sign a recent law on health-care employment and send it back to parliament for reconsideration, arguing that the legislation was incompatible with Hungary’s constitution. The OSZSZ association of the trade unions of four Hungarian medical universities said […]
The opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) will turn to the European Commission in order to prevent the appointment of “(Chief Prosecutor) Péter Polt’s right-hand man” to head of the Kuria, Hungary’s supreme court, a party MEP said on Saturday. Sándor Rónai told an online press conference on Facebook that “after the occupation of the chief prosecutor’s […]
Bence Tuzson, a state secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office, said on Friday that he had tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Tuzson said on Facebook that after Monday’s test came back positive, he self-isolated and notified all he had been recently in contact with. His family and immediate environment “seems to be healthy”, he […]
The government’s aim is to encourage GP practices to create a community, to eliminate empty practices and improve the level of services, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Saturday after meeting the action groups coordinating coronavirus-related measures. Orbán said on Facebook that the past two weeks had seen a rise in coronavirus numbers and this […]
Twenty-one Covid-19 patients have died in the past 24 hours, while the number of registered coronavirus infections in Hungary has risen by 1,068 to 37,664 koronavirus.gov.hu said on Sunday morning. The number of fatalities stands at 954, and 10,048 people have made a recovery.
As the likelihood of a vaccine against the coronavirus appearing before mid-2021 is small, “we Hungarians will have to endure it … until June or July,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview.
A new hotbed of novel coronavirus infection has emerged at a construction site in Tiszaúlváros in north-eastern Hungary, with 242 of 1,717 coronavirus tests showing positive results, Chief Medical Officer Cecília Müller said.
Domestic manufacture of the Covid-19 drug Remdesivir is under way in Hungary, with pharmaceutical company Richter having manufactured enough clinical trial doses in the initial phase to treat some 250 patients, the innovation and technology ministry said.
Hungary’s opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) said that hospitals still did not have enough protective gear. The party said it had seen a letter showing that a senior hospital doctor had asked colleagues to use FFP2 masks more than once.
Health-care workers’ union FESZ demanded an average 50% wage increase for health-care employees not affected by the wage hikes for doctors, which was approved by parliament earlier this week.
