The Hungarian government has not been given unlimited power in the wake of the freshly-adopted law on the containment of the coronavirus, and it never desired anything like that; that would be very unfortunate, Zoltán Kovács said in a short interview given to the BBC on Wednesday.
Every Hungarian has a right to know which generations and target groups are most at risk from the coronavirus, and which illnesses pose a particular threat from the viewpoint of the virus, Minister of State for International Communication and Relations Zoltán Kovács said in a video message on Wednesday.
Mayors will be able to exercise their powers during the state of danger as before. The government has abandoned plans to introduce changes in this regard, Gergely Gulyás told the Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday.
“Hungarian and Slovenian citizens may once again use the Bajánsenye and Kétvölgy border crossing stations from Thursday morning”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced on his Facebook page.
“While history has proved us right, Hungary was nonetheless taken to court. This is especially shocking in light of the fact that almost none of the Member States have fully implemented the 2015 ‘quota decisions’,” Justice Minister Judit Varga stated in response to the judgment delivered by the European Court of Justice today.
Further planes carrying protective supplies, including overalls, face masks and ventilators, are arriving in Hungary in the next few days, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister said on the public service television news channel M1 on Thursday.
Hungary supports the proposal put forward by the United States.
The COVID-19 pandemic poses an unprecedented challenge to the European Union and its Member States. Ordinary solutions and traditional approaches have manifestly proven inadequate. A number of exceptional measures have been introduced by all the Member States.
The police are continuously monitoring compliance with the extraordinary measures, a staff member of the duty centre of the Operational Group responsible for the containment of the coronavirus infection said at an online press conference held on Wednesday.
Everyone is exposed to the threat of coronavirus infection, the young are no exception, the Chief Medical Officer stated at the Wednesday online press conference of the Operational Group responsible for the containment of the coronavirus epidemic.