Muller: Hungary to introduce changes to vaccination plan
Hungarian authorities will make some changes to the country's vaccination plan to ensure that "as many people as possible" receive at least the first shot, and obtain "if not full but significant" protection against Covid-19, the chief medical officer said on Friday.
Temperature rises to national, Budapest record
Hungary's temperature rose to a record high on February 26. The mercury hit 22.4 C. in Kiskunfelegyhaza, southern Hungary, on Friday, the national weather service said on its Facebook page.
Karacsony: Budapest stood test of first, second waves
Budapest stood the test of the first and second waves of the coronavirus to a great extent thanks to the cooperation of the city's residents, Mayor Gergely Karacsony said on Friday.
President Ader receives first shot
President Janos Ader has received the first dose of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine against Covid-19.
Rolling jobless rate 4.3 percent
Hungary's three-month rolling average jobless rate averaged 4.3 percent in the Nov-Jan period, up by 0.2 percentage point from the previous month, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said on Friday.
Kovacs comments on Jourova remarks suggesting ‘democratic crisis’ in Hungary
Vera Jourova, vice-president of the European Commission "seems to be ready to help us, poor Hungarians, out of our democratic crisis", Zoltan Kovacs, the state secretary for international communications, said on Facebook.
DK accuses government of rejecting EU vaccines
Hungary set to face ‘hardest two weeks’ of pandemic, Orbán warns
Hungary is set to face its hardest two weeks of the coronavirus pandemic yet, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a video on Facebook on Thursday, encouraging the public to register for a vaccine. Meanwhile the opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) accused the government of ...
Restrictions to stay in place until March 15
The government will maintain the current restrictions introduced due to the coronavirus pandemic until March 15, the head of the Prime Minister's Office told a weekly press briefing on Thursday. Gergely Gulyas said that the third wave of the pandemic had hit Hungary and ...
Hungary’s penalising aid to asylum seekers violates EU law, says advocate general
Hungary's criminalisation of activities aimed at helping migrants apply for asylum, who do not meet the national criteria for international protection, violates European Union law, the advocate general for the bloc's Luxembourg court said on Thursday. Hungary's parliament in 2018 passed a package of ...
Szijjarto: New power relations in ‘brave new world’
A "brave new world" has begun in politics and economics, with new power relations heightening competition, the foreign minister said on Thursday. Peter Szijjarto told a meeting of Hungarian ambassadors that two kinds of competition had emerged: one to procure vaccines and the other ...
