In an Easter television broadcast, President Janos Áder thanked Hungarians, especially “doctors, nurses, ambulance and health-care staff”, for work undertaken in “trying times”.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a message on Good Friday that self-control remained the “deadliest weapon” in fighting the novel coronavirus epidemic, and he urged Hungarians to observe social distancing.
The lesson to be learnt from the novel coronavirus pandemic is that solidarity and responsibility for each other spans the generations, Cardinal Péter Erdő, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, said in an Easter address on Saturday.
Hungary’s chief medical officer said on Saturday that she is ordering an investigation into whether residents of an old people’s home run by the municipality of Budapest received proper medical care when an outbreak of novel coronavirus took place in the facility.
Mayors nationwide have enacted restrictive measures in Hungary over the Easter holiday.
The president said that at the beginning of the year, no one thought the world would be in the situation it is now, preparing for an unusual Easter.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases has reached 1310 by Saturday (11th April).
The places which were full before are empty now. The tourists are home and also the locals stay at home too. Just a few people are on the streets of the capital of Hungary.
Economic research company GKI’s consumer confidence index has never fallen as much in a month in its history of almost 30 years as in April 2020 though it still stands higher than its historic low measured in April 2009, GKI told MTI.
Hungary’s customer protection authority has imposed a fine of 300,000 forints (EUR 838) on a butcher at Budapest’s Lehel Square indoor market for charging “stellar prices” for chicken products, the innovation and technology ministry said.
