The police have terminated border checks on all of Hungary’s Schengen internal state borders, a staff member of the duty centre of the Operational Group responsible for the containment of the coronavirus epidemic said at an online press conference held on Tuesday.

Police Lt. Colonel Róbert Kiss stressed that as a result of consultations with the law enforcement agencies of neighbouring countries, at 7.00 p.m. on Monday border traffic controls were brought to a conclusion at all Hungarian-Slovenian border crossing stations and border crossing points.

Since 12 March, 120,724 persons have crossed the Hungarian-Slovenian border at different transit and passenger traffic border crossing stations and points. 41,303 trucks have been let through in international transit traffic, while in international cargo traffic 35,766 trucks have been allowed in for destinations in Hungary, he added.

Mr Kiss said the number of persons registering for the IT application that can be downloaded onto mobile phones for the electronic monitoring of compulsory home quarantine has risen to 2,434, with the number of active users standing at 801 at present. On Monday 589 compulsory home quarantine orders were issued, and so on Tuesday the number of compulsory home quarantine orders in effect is 9,523 in total.

He mentioned that the number of criminal procedures instituted in connection with the epidemic had risen to 427, including 124 due to scaremongering, 29 due to the threat of public endangerment, 129 due to fraud and 22 due to the violation of disease control regulations.

In these cases, the police have questioned eighty persons as suspects so far, he added.

(Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister / MTI)