The current restrictive regulations imposed due to the coronavirus epidemic will remain in force until 3 May, Gergely Gulyás, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office announced at an online press conference held on Thursday.
The border crossing points at Röszke, Tompa and Hercegszántó were opened to people living along the Hungarian-Serbian border on Thursday, thereby helping to ensure that commuters do not suffer too great a level of economic damage because of the consequences of the novel coronavirus epidemic.
Action has been taken due to the violation of compulsory home quarantine regulations in 1,200 instances to date, 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 Thursday.
The coronavirus epidemic is still displaying an upward trend, we are not at the end of it; the number of infected persons is increasing by the day, the Chief Medical Officer said at the Thursday online press conference of the Operational Group responsible for the containment of the coronavirus epidemic.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán paid a visit to the Árpád-házi Szent Erzsébet Social Care Home in Budapest, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief informed the Hungarian news agency MTI, adding that the Prime Minister posted a video of the visit on his Facebook account.
Hungary is undergoing political lynching for following its own path. However, the government is no longer interested in political opinions, and is seeking to find the most effective way of managing the novel coronavirus epidemic, Zoltán Kovács stressed in an interview given to the BBC on Wednesday.
In preparation for the Thursday EU summit, on Wednesday morning Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had talks with President of the European Council Charles Michel, and in the afternoon he also consulted with the prime ministers of the Visegrád countries.
The government’s economy protection and economy restarting action plan also has a major impact on agriculture, including, among others, those working in the gardening sector, the Government Spokesperson said in a recording posted on Facebook on Wednesday.
“The countries of the Visegrád Group (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia; the V4) are providing 35 million euros in funding to Libya, with which they are not only contributing to border protection, but also to the fight against the coronavirus epidemic”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at an online press conference on Wednesday.
“From 6 o’clock this morning, Hungarian and Serbian citizens who work or cultivate land on the other side of the border will be able to cross the border via the Röszke, Tompa and Hercegszántó border crossing points”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced on his Facebook page on Thursday.