The National Bank of Hungary (NBH) projects Hungary’s economy will expand more slowly this year because of measures to contain the spread of novel coronavirus, but it will maintain its growth advantage over countries in the euro zone.
Hungarian food safety authority Nébih said it detected avian flu virus H5N8 at a duck farm in Bács-Kiskun County (S Hungary).
Starting 2nd April, the change will affect more than two hundred stores.
The new government measures covering the whole country will come into effect between March 28 and April 11.
Hungary has successfully managed to slow down the spread of novel coronavirus compared with other countries in the region, a top official has said.
On Friday morning (27th March), Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán announced curfew in the country.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Hungary has risen to 300.
Army teams are being deployed to help 84 strategic companies in connection with novel coronavirus, a defence ministry official said.
Britain’s deputy ambassador to Hungary, Steven Dick, has died in Budapest after contracting coronavirus. Dick, 37, died on Tuesday, according to a Foreign Office statement on Wednesday afternoon.
The construction of a container hospital in Kiskunhalas, in southern Hungary, is progressing well, and ventilators have been installed, the head of operative board in charge of handling the novel coronavirus, said.
