Last weekend the restrictions on movement were more closely observed in Budapest than elsewhere in the country, 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 Monday.
There was no attending physician at the Pesti út elderly care home for minimum a week, the Chief Medical Officer stated at the Monday online press conference of the Operational Group responsible for the containment of the coronavirus epidemic.
“Equipment necessary for healthcare protection against the coronavirus epidemic arrived in Hungary last week aboard 21 aeroplanes and 3 heavy goods vehicles”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Monday in Parliament.
On Sunday morning, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán paid an unannounced visit to the Magyar Imre Hospital in Ajka, of which he posted a video message on his Facebook account, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief informed the Hungarian news agency MTI.
Hungary is still in the ascending phase of the epidemic, the Chief Medical Officer stated at the Sunday online press conference of the Operational Group responsible for the containment of the coronavirus epidemic.
At the weekend, in general more people tend to violate the rules relating to restrictions on movement, the head of the duty centre of the Operational Group responsible for the containment of the coronavirus epidemic said at an online press conference held on Sunday.
“Six million masks and three million pairs of gloves arrived in Hungary from China on Saturday”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI.
“Slovakia is one of Hungary’s most important foreign trade partners; our longest stretch of common border is with them, and it is with them that we are currently working on the largest number of infrastructure links”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared on Saturday on Facebook following talks with Slovakian Minister of Economy Richard Sulík.
In the first quarter, some 9,000 migrants were detected at the Hungarian-Serbian, Hungarian-Romanian and Hungarian-Croatian border sections, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said on Friday evening on the public service television news channel M1.
At the time of the coronavirus epidemic, instead of European unity and common action, the European Parliament is repeatedly attacking Hungary, the Justice Minister told the Hungarian news agency MTI on Friday. According to Judit Varga, the resolution adopted by the EP on Friday contains false findings in connection with Hungary.