Or early January, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday. In his regular interview to public broadcaster Kossuth Radio, Orbán said that those suffering from chronic illnesses and the elderly population most vulnerable to the virus could be vaccinated around January. Mass doses of the vaccine are expected to arrive in April, he added. The […]
Fully 65 Covid-19 patients with underlying illnesses have died in Hungary over the past 24 hours while 3,286 have been officially diagnosed with coronavirus, bringing the total number of registered infections to 71,413, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Friday. The death toll has risen to 1,699, while 17,953 have made a recovery. There are 51,761 active infections […]
The Hungarian government is extending face mask requirements to restaurants and entertainment venues from next week, the deputy head of the operative board responsible for handling the coronavirus epidemic said. The new regulations enter into effect on November 2, Róbert Kiss told a press conference. Under the new rules, members of the public will be […]
Fully 56 Covid-19 patients have died over the past 24 hours in Hungary — most of them elderly and suffering from an underlying illness — while 2,194 have been officially diagnosed with coronavirus, bringing the total number of registered infections to 68,127, koronavirus.gov.hu said. The death toll has risen to 1,634, while 17,469 have made […]
Fines Hungarian authorities can levy for breaching quarantine rules have been substantially increased, under a law amendment that took effect on Wednesday, Róbert Kiss, a spokesman of the central operative board coordinating coronavirus-related measures, said. Lawmakers on Monday approved the new regulations which raise the maximum fine that can be levied for breaches of home […]
Proposals by the Hungarian Chamber of Doctors to tighten restrictions in the fight against Covid-19 are being considered by the operative board responsible for handling the epidemic, the chief medical officer told a press briefing. Cecília Müller said in response to a question that some of the chamber’s proposals announced on Tuesday had already been […]
The GDP of Hungary could fall by 6.4% this year and economic trends could start to change from the second quarter of 2021 with a vaccine against the coronavirus possibly available by that time, Finance Minister Mihály Varga said at an annual hearing before a parliamentary committee. The finance ministry is working to restore the […]
The Hungarian Medical Chamber recommends more restrictions to fight the novel coronavirus epidemic and proposes “constructive dialogue” with decision makers in the modernisation of the health-care system. The chamber said in a statement that based on international trends, the epidemic can be expected to quickly deteriorate and neighbouring countries have already introduced measures based on […]
Sixty-three Covid-19 patients, mostly elderly and suffering from an underlying illness, died in the past 24 hours, and registered coronavirus infections went up by 2,079 to 63,642, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Tuesday. The death toll rose to 1,535, while 16,446 people have made a recovery. There are 45,461 active infections, while 2,891 patients are hospitalised, 243 […]
The human resources minister has ordered the expansion of the number of hospitals treating coronavirus patients, the ministry has said. Like the rest of Europe, Hungary, too, is seeing a steep rise in its number of coronavirus cases, the human resources ministry told MTI. Outside Budapest, six additional hospitals will be treating Covid-19 patients from […]
