Coronavirus

Last week’s data indicate a flattening of Hungary’s coronavirus curve, as a drop in coronavirus infections was registered, the Chief Medical Officer has said.

Fully 106 Covid patients, generally elderly and suffering from an underlying illness, have died over the past 24 hours, while 3,806 more virus cases have been officially registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said.

Fully 117 Covid patients, mostly elderly with an underlying illness, have died over the past 24 hours, while there were 3,929 newly registered coronavirus cases, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Tuesday.

Fully 91 Covid patients, mostly elderly and suffering from an underlying illness, have died in the past 24 hours and coronavirus infections have risen by 3,334 to 177,952, koronavirus.gov.hu said.

The prime minister is emphasising the importance of keeping schools and kindergartens open.

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has announced on Monday morning that he had signed a government decree that “serves the purpose of allowing seniors (over the age of 65) to shop in a protected time zone from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. from Monday to Friday”.

Human Resources Minister Miklós Kásler paid tribute to the staff of health-care and social institutions for their outstanding performance facing the challenge of the epidemic in a message on his social media page on Sunday.

Another delivery of 1 million tablets of medicine with the active ingredient favipiravir, a drug used to treat coronavirus patients, arrived in Hungary on Saturday, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in a video posted on his social media page on Saturday. He stressed the importance of keeping inventories of the drug well-stocked, and said supplies […]

Fully 111 Covid patients, mostly elderly and suffering from an underlying illness, have died in the past 24 hours and coronavirus infections have risen by 4,320 to 174,618, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Sunday.