“Romanian and Bulgarian citizens will be afforded a single transit opportunity on Tuesday night along the designated transit routes”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a Facebook post on Tuesday.
“The Action Group responsible for the functioning of enterprises that are vital in the epidemic situation has begun operations under the leadership of Minister of Defence Tibor Benkő”, the Ministry’s State Secretary announced on Tuesday in Budapest.
“The existing plans for 2020 must be put aside for the moment; the coronavirus represents a danger to both the people and the economy, and accordingly the fight against its spread overwrites all previous economic policy efforts”, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga said following and expanded video conference of Eurozone finance ministers.
“There is also a major level of interdependence between the region’s countries with relation to the coronavirus epidemic, concerning protecting public health, assuring continuous supply, and maintaining the operational capacity of economies”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at a press conference in Budapest on Tuesday following talks with his Czech, Slovak and Austrian counterparts.
The effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus has entered a new phase, Minister of State for International Communication and Relations Zoltán Kovács said after the Tuesday meeting of the Operational Group.
From midnight tonight border closure will take effect at every border, including the Budapest Liszt Ferenc Airport; however, we are not closing down the airport, Minister of State for International Communication and Relations told the Hungarian news agency MTI on Monday evening.
For a short while, the government portal koronavirus.gov.hu was not available due to a web traffic overload attack initiated from an outside source, Csaba Dömötör, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister stated on his Facebook account.
For a short while, the government portal koronavirus.gov.hu was not available due to a web traffic overload attack initiated from an outside source, Csaba Dömötör, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister stated on his Facebook account.
“Freight traffic between Hungary and Slovenia is continuing unhindered, although under strict measures, and this is helping us to assure the continuous supply of the Hungarian people”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó emphasised in Ljubljana on Monday.
Violation of the measures imposed due to the coronavirus infection constitutes a breach of law, and the limit of the fine it carries will be HUF 500,000, the head of the duty centre of the Operational Group responsible for the containment of the coronavirus infection said at a press conference held on Monday in Budapest.