Life outside Budapest picked up considerably over the weekend as the easing of coronavirus-related restrictions drew many to tourist spots and restaurant terraces filled up as much as physical distancing rules allowed.
Temperatures are expected to drop by 10 Celsius degrees this week – says the Hungarian Meteorology Service.
According to MTI, MOL Nyrt is about to rise fuel prices on Wednesday, 13 May 2020.
Mayors of the opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) in Budapest will introduce an extraordinary jobseekers’ allowance to help those that have lost their jobs during the novel coronavirus epidemic, Erzsébet Gy. Németh, deputy Budapest mayor and the party’s human affairs expert, said over the weekend.
Hungary’s law on the response measures to the novel coronavirus epidemic has “stood the test of the rule of law” and it has been proven that the freedom of the press is not under threat in the country, the justice minister said in an interview to the Saturday edition of daily Magyar Nemzet.
Budapest residents who have demonstrated “respectable acceptance” of restriction measures so far deserve to know the city’s novel coronavirus infection figures “which the government has so far failed to make public”, Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony said over the weekend.
Cool down arrives in Hungary on Tuesday morning (12th May).
Hungary’s goal is to become self-sufficient in vaccine production, similarly to other areas, the human resources minister said, after signing a cooperation agreement on vaccine production with the University of Debrecen in Budapest.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán expressed his gratitude to ambulance workers for their service on the occasion of Ambulance Day, in a video posted on Facebook.
A further 8 people, all of whom had underlying illnesses, have died in Hungary, bringing the coronavirus death toll to 413, while the number of registered infections has increased by 50 to 3,263, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Sunday.
