The National Ambulance Service published a short but all the more striking post on its social media page on Wednesday. “Here are nine reasons why we shouldn’t buy firecrackers for New Year’s Eve,” they wrote, and they attached X-rays of 9 severely damaged wrists. In recent days, there have been constant warnings regarding the purchase […]
Fully 4,397 new infections were confirmed last week, while there were 56 fatalities in connection with Covid-19, according to the website koronavirus.gov.hu, which published data from last week on Wednesday. The number of active infections stands at 13,571, the website said. Currently, 386 coronavirus patients are being treated in hospitals, 19 intubated on a ventilator.
Several post offices will be reopened in January, after operator Magyar Posta’s “intense and constructive” talks with local authorities, the company told MTI on Wednesday.
As of 2024, the government’s Waste Act, amended in 2021, will make glass, plastic bottles, and metal beverage cans compulsorily returnable, according to a statement from the Hungarian Energy and Public Utilities Regulatory Office (MEKH).
The Ryanair Brussels-Bucharest flight landed in Budapest on Tuesday evening – Budapest Airport informed MTI.
The accommodation providers are already close to 225,000 reservations for the New Year’s Eve weekend, which is more than in the same period last year. This number is only 2,000 less than the number of nights the guests finally spent the previous year – the Hungarian Tourism Agency (MTÜ) told MTI.
In the past month and a half, the new management of Magyar Posta Zrt. held intensive and constructive negotiations with local governments about the closed post offices, thanks to which several post offices will reopen in January, negotiations will continue, Magyar Posta told MTI on Wednesday.
The transfer of the last motor fuel price cap relief for independent petrol station operators has started, the economic development minister said on Friday. Payment to 467 businesses of the 6.24 billion forints (EUR 15.6m) in relief, for the period July-September, has begun, Márton Nagy said in a statement.
During the three days of the Christmas holiday, the intervention of firefighters was required in 368 places, one person died in a house fire and two died of carbon monoxide poisoning, the spokesperson of the National Directorate General of Disaster Management told MTI on Tuesday.
Firecrackers are prohibited on New Year’s Eve this year, fireworks purchased from legal vendors can be used from 6:00 p.m. on December 31 until 6:00 a.m. on January 1, the communications service of the National Police Headquarters (ORFK) announced on police.hu on Tuesday.
