
Nagy: Measures to contain the spread of foot-and-mouth disease are working
Minister Nagy said risks remained, pointing to a new outbreak in neighboring Slovakia, and stressed the need to comply with all restrictions.

Austria closes border crossings because of foot-and-mouth disease
As of midnight on Saturday morning, Austria has suspended border traffic at numerous border crossings with Hungary due to the spread of the disease in cloven-hoofed animals.
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Hungarian Armed Forces conduct disinfection work at locations affected by foot-and-mouth disease
Defense Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky said on Facebook that the Hungarian Armed Forces can be counted on.

Nagy: Government will use every available resource to eradicate foot-and-mouth disease
Minister Nagy outlined restrictions taken around the farm in Level (W Hungary) to contain the spread of the disease.

Foot-and-mouth disease appears to be contained in Hungary
Gergely Gulyás said the last of the infected animals would be destroyed by Thursday.

Births, marriages continue to decline
According to preliminary data, 6,367 children were born and 12,855 people died in January 2025. The number of births lessened by 4.5%, that of marriages by 4.2%, while that of deaths rose by 6,5% compared to the same month of the previous year.

Political vaccine wars continue
Hungary is once again squandering taxpayers' money on the procurement of coronavirus vaccines, Mi Hazánk says.

DK on World Cancer Day: People left in the lurch
4 February is World Cancer Day. However, if you look at the Hungarian data, there is no reason to rejoice, writes the opposition party DK.

Births, deaths, marriages drop
According to preliminary data, 6,339 children were born and 11,773 people died in December 2024. The number of births lessened by 4.1%, that of deaths by 7.0% and that of marriages by 25% compared to the same period of the previous year.

A rude awakening
An emergency has arisen in the small town of Pilis due to larvae in the water.
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Egis favipiravir drug licenced for Covid-19 treatment
A new drug with the active ingredient favipiravir manufactured by Hungarian pharmaceutical company Egis has been licenced for treatment of Covid-19 by the National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition (OGYEI), the institute said on Saturday.

Events of the past few days amount to the government's Waterloo, Gyurcsany says
400,000 more to be vaccinated by Wednesday
Another 400,000 people will have been vaccinated against coronavirus in Hungary by Wednesday, placing the country in first place in Europe, Gergely Gulyas, the prime minister's chief of staff, told public broadcaster Kossuth Radio. Meanwhile Ferenc Gyurcsany said that the government's incompetence was preventing ...
Coronavirus – Sixteen deaths, 859 new infections
Sixteen patients died of a Covid-related illness in the past 24 hours, while 859 new coronavirus infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Tuesday.
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Egis favipiravir drug licenced for Covid-19 treatment
A new drug with the active ingredient favipiravir manufactured by Hungarian pharmaceutical company Egis has been licenced for treatment of Covid-19 by the National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition (OGYEI), the institute said on Saturday.

Second jab of Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca to be pushed back
The second jabs of the Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca vaccines will be pushed back as much as professional, clinical and scientific standards allow, to ensure as many people as possible get the first coronavirus shot, an official of the National Public Health Centre (NNK) said ...

BioNTech’s Kariko to be awarded honorary doctorate by University of Szeged
Hungarian-born biochemist Katalin Kariko, whose decades of work with mRNA technology was instrumental in the development of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, will be awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Szeged, the institution said on Tuesday.