“Hungary will be able to purchase a further 2.2 billion cubic metres of natural gas from Gazprom this year, thus assuring the country’s gas supply for 2020”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced at a press conference in Moscow on Wednesday following talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
After the Wednesday cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will make an announcement on his social media account, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief informed the Hungarian news agency MTI.
The government has created the foundations for a clear, authentic and reliable flow of information in connection with the coronavirus epidemic. Members of the public can access the latest, clearest and most accurate information regarding the epidemic on the Internet website at koronavirus.gov.hu, Minister of State for International Communication-head of the communications task force Zoltán Kovács told Kossuth Radio on Sunday.
In the interest of preventing the spread of the coronavirus, from 18 March 2020 government windows and document offices will only receive customers by appointment. At the same time, the operation of Mobile Government Window Customer Services (“KAB buses”) has been suspended indefinitely. If you have forgotten your client gate identifier, staff members of the Government Customer Line available at the toll-free number 1818 are happy to help you.
Members of law enforcement agencies must stand their ground more firmly now than ever before due to the intensifying migration pressure and the coronavirus epidemic, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said on Wednesday on the public service television news channel M1.
The top priority is that people should try to prevent infection by staying at home, by working from home if possible and by ensuring that children also avoid the company of others, Örs Farkas, spokesperson of the Government Communication Centre said on Wednesday morning on the public service television news channel M1.
The government is releasing new information films with the underlying main message that due to the coronavirus epidemic, social meetings must be minimised, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister said in a video message posted on his Facebook account on Wednesday.
“Hungary’s foreign representation in Panama has evacuated eleven Hungarian citizens from a music festival that local armed forces have placed under quarantine because of the coronavirus pandemic”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Parliamentary State Secretary Levente Magyar said in a telephone statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday.
“Hungary is sending a plane to collect the 146 Hungarians who have become trapped in Morocco after the North African country stopped all scheduled flights because of the coronavirus pandemic”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced on his Facebook page on Wednesday morning.
According to the government decree adopted as part of a series of emergency measures, from this afternoon shops (e.g. clothing stores, shoe shops, etc.) are not allowed to remain open beyond 3.00 p.m., not including stores selling foodstuffs, toiletries, household cleaning substances, chemicals and hygiene paper products, pharmacies, stores selling medical supplies, filling stations and tobacco shops.