Forty-eight Covid-19 patients, mostly elderly and suffering from an underlying illness, died in the past 24 hours, and registered coronavirus infections rose by 1,423 to 50,180, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Wednesday. The death toll rose to 1,259, while 14,905 people have made a recovery. There are 34,016 active infections, while 2,023 Covid patients are hospitalised, 201 […]
Ducks, cats are enjoing the sunshine in the Big Forest. The weather is so warm that you can even find pansy too. Thanks for the photos to Viktória Kóczián and Éva Szűcs.
The government has so far awarded grants totalling 6 billion forints (EUR 16.4m) to help 1,600 bidders buy over 2,000 electric vehicles, a state secretary of the innovation and technology ministry said. Péter Kaderják said that the programme, initially launched under the government’s Climate and Environment Protection Action Plan in May with a budget of […]
Parliament has passed an amendment under which convicts sentenced for murder cannot be released on parole, Justice Minister Judit Varga said on Facebook. The minister said that the package of amendments was aimed at ensuring protection for victims of crime and to the population at large. The new rules, she added, would help diminish the […]
Fully 38 Covid-19 patients have died over the past 24 hours in Hungary – most of them elderly and suffering from an underlying illness – while 989 have been officially diagnosed with coronavirus, bringing the total number of registered infections to 48,757, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Tuesday. The death toll has risen to 1,211, while 14,637 […]
An increasing number of people aged between 40 and 49 as well as people above 65 are among those infected with the novel coronavirus, the chief medical officer has said. Cecília Müller told a press conference of the operative board responsible for handling the epidemic response that comparing data from the past two weeks showed […]
Fully 31 Covid-19 patients have died in the past 24 hours, while the number of registered coronavirus infections in Hungary has risen by 1,478 to 47,768, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Monday.
According to the World Health Organisation, Hungary’s coronavirus infection rates are close to the European Union average, Hungary’s chief medical officer said.
Hungarians can now cross into Austria without any coronavirus-related restrictions as Austria has “changed Hungary’s safety risk assessment to positive”, a spokesman for the central body coordinating efforts against the epidemic told a press conference on Monday.
The ethnic Bulgarian community is small but its survival is important to Hungary, the state secretary for church and minority relations said at an event marking Hungary-Bulgaria friendship day.
