Three patients have died in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19 fatalities to 562, while registered novel coronavirus infections in Hungary have increased by 5 to 4,069, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Sunday.
All restrictions on health-care services will be lifted in Hungary from Monday, Human Resources Minister Miklós Kásler said.
Government decree 207/2020. (V.15.) on the next phase of protective measures allows wedding ceremonies to be held and the following bridal parties with less than 200 participants at catering and accommodation facilities from 1 June 2020.
Hungary’s population decline slowed in the first four months of the year as the number of births increased by 5.5% and the number of deaths decreased by 6.4% compared with the same period last year, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said.
The outlines of the government’s new National Digitalisation Strategy, which will help position the ICT industry for the best use of resources during the 2021-2027 European Union funding period, were presented at the annual Infoparliament Conference on Thursday.
More than 4,000 people registered to use Mol Bubi in April, after the monthly usage fee for the capital’s bicycle sharing system was reduced to a token 100 forints (EUR 0.3), the Budapest Public Transport Centre (BKK) said.
The government expects healthy economic growth of 4.8% next year and moderate inflation of 3%, Finance Minister Mihály Varga told lawmakers in remarks opening the budget debate.
Panther 5 ventilators, “among the best in the world”, are being produced in Vac, in northern Hungary, in a factory producing 1,000 devices for use in Hungarian hospitals, a government official said.
Border controls were lifted on all of Hungary’s Schengen borders effective Monday but general travel rules applying to non-Hungarian citizens remain in place, the spokesman for the operative board coordinating Hungary’s response to the novel coronavirus epidemic, said.
The PSZ teachers’ union has said it disagrees with a government plan to set up a school guard aimed at tackling violent crime in schools.
