The latest government decrees and decisions which serve the containment of the coronavirus epidemic have been released in the Saturday edition of Magyar Közlöny [Hungarian Gazette].
A government decree regulates the measures to be implemented as part of the state of danger declared with a view to preventing a human epidemic causing mass incidences and endangering the safety of life and property, warding off the consequences, and protecting the health and lives of Hungarian citizens.
The decree states, inter alia, that upon the recommendation of the President of the Curia, the President of the National Office for the Judiciary and the chief prosecutor, a judicial recess will be ordered.
It also states that institutions providing infant care, while in the case of institutions providing infant and nursery care, the mayor of the local government in the settlement where the given nursery school is located (in the capital, the district mayors) can order an extraordinary break, of which the Minister of Human Capacities must be informed.
The Ministry of Human Capacities issued a decree about the amendment of certain ministerial decrees covering health care topics necessitated by the recently declared state of danger, while another two documents issued by the ministry amend two earlier decrees: one of them concerns the further training of specialist health care workers, while the other one covers the ongoing on-the-job training of health care workers holding tertiary health care qualifications.
The government decisions now published identify further measures necessitated by the efforts to contain the coronavirus, introduce a new working procedure in public education and vocational training institutions, suspend the application of the present pension policy principles applicable in the public sector in relation to health care workers, and regroup funds from the reserve which serves the purposes of extraordinary government measures.
A further government decree lists the responsibilities related to the postponement of the Giro d’Italia bicycle race whose opening stages were planned to be held in Hungary.
(MTI)
