“Next Wednesday, a border crossing point will be opened for Hungarians working in Austria”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced on his Facebook page on Friday morning.
Local governments have been given the authority also for this weekend to decide on issues related to the use of public areas within their own competence due to the coronavirus epidemic, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister said on Friday on the public service television news channel M1.
“The government has decided on the introduction of further tax concessions that will leave 200 billion forints (EUR 570 million) in the pockets of enterprises and families”, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga announced on Thursday in a video posted to his Facebook page.
The crisis management instruments proposed by the European Commission were discussed at the latest videoconference meeting of EU finance ministers, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga told the press following the meeting.
In contrast to fake news released in some Hungarian press outlets, the Hungary Helps Programme will continue its mission.
On 16 April 2020, in the building of the Vasvári utca synagogue, Deputy State Secretary Vince Szalay-Bobrovniczky, Ministerial Commissioner Szabolcs Takács and President of the Jewish Heritage of Hungary Public Endowment György Szabó delivered speeches to commemorate the Memorial Day of the Hungarian Victims of the Holocaust.
From Saturday, the government will extend the restrictions on movement for another week, and will review the situation at next Wednesday’s cabinet meeting, Gergely Gulyás stated at his online press conference held on Thursday. The Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office also announced several relief measures in taxation and the recreational benefit ‘SZÉP’ cards, and said from 4 May only written final examinations will be organised.
Hungary donated two hundred thousand face masks and ten thousand pieces of medical protective clothing to Bosnia-Hercegovina on Thursday to ensure that the Western Balkan country can maintain its protective capacity. The protective equipment was presented by Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó in Sarajevo and Banja Luka.
On behalf of the government, Justice Minister Judit Varga placed pebbles, flowers and a candle at the Shoes Memorial on the Danube Bank on Thursday, on the Memorial Day of the Hungarian Victims of the Holocaust.
The number of coronavirus patients in need of hospital treatment is continuously rising in Hungary; at present, 729 persons are being treated in health care institutions, including seven children, the Chief Medical Officer said at the online press conference of the Operational Group responsible for the containment of the coronavirus infection on Thursday.