Altogether three patients have died in the past 24 hours, all of whom were elderly and had underlying illnesses, bringing the total number of fatalities to 473, while the number of registered novel coronavirus infections in Hungary increased by 43 to 3,641, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Thursday morning.
The government has decided to close down its transit zones on the Hungarian-Serbian border, the Prime Minister’s chief of staff announced.
Fully 67.7% of those enlisted have participated in a nationwide representative testing for the novel coronavirus, a high turnout in European comparison, Béla Merkely, the rector of the Semmelweis University leading the testing, said.
More than 8,000 companies have applied for wage support for around 105,000 employees who are working reduced hours under a government scheme to manage the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, Minister of Innovation and Technology László Palkovics said at a daily coronavirus briefing.
In the past two days, 700 ventilators have been delivered to Hungary, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó told MTI.
The Centrist Democrat International (CDI), a Christian Democratic political formation, held a video conference to discuss as a priority the tackling of the coronavirus pandemic, the press chief of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said.
Fidesz MEP László Trócsányi said in an article published in Wednesday’s Magyar Nemzet that confrontations between the European Union’s institutions and those of member states were predictable as “the balance outlined in the EU treaties have been upset” and the EU is “showing tendencies that institutions of the individual member states reject”.
The Hungarian government has earmarked 20,000 euros to support Palestinian Christians in the West Bank at the time of the coronavirus pandemic, the head of Hungary’s Representative Office in Ramallah said.
The number of registered jobseekers in Hungary rose by an annual 69,000, or 26.5%, to 330,700 in April, data published on the website of the National Employment Office (NFSZ) show.
Human Resources Minister Miklós Kásler praised the “successful” end to the first phase of Hungary’s efforts against the novel coronavirus epidemic.
