A Hungarian consortium is being set up for the development of pharmacotherapy for the treatment of the disease caused by novel coronavirus, the Ministry for Innovation and Technology informed the Hungarian news agency MTI on Friday evening.
“Mercedes-Benz is building a new press plant in Kecskemét with an investment of some fifty billion forints (EUR 150 million); the expansion of the car plant will create 200 new workplaces”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced on Friday in Kecskemét.
“Germany could soon decide on making an exception to the export ban and will be shipping the previously ordered protective equipment to Hungary”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at a press conference in Budapest on Friday. The Minister held a meeting with the foreign ministers of the Visegrád Group countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, the V4) and Germany. Mr. Szijjártó noted that the meeting was originally to be held in Prague, but the parties decided to hold a video conference in view of the coronavirus epidemic.
This year’s budget as well as the 2021 budget already in the phase of planning will have to be revised in their entirety due to the coronavirus epidemic, and the budgets of local governments and institutions will have to be reviewed as well, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated on Kossuth Radio’s Friday morning programme.
The information spreading on social media that the Operational Group has decided to seal Budapest is fake news. The issue of quarantining the capital has not featured on the agenda of the Operational Group’s meetings.
The government has released short films for the elderly in connection with the coronavirus, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister announced at a press conference held on Thursday in Budapest, after the meeting of the Operational Corps.
Due to the coronavirus epidemic, the Kossuth and Széchenyi Prizes ceremony will be held at a later date, Zoltán Kovács, head of the operational corps responsible for the safe implementation of national commemorations announced in the programme ‘Arena’ of Inforadio on Thursday.
The health care personnel of Liszt Ferenc Airport also checked the body temperature of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on his return from an official visit to Moldova.
In the field of defence, the United States of America is one of Hungary’s most important strategic partners, said Defence Minister Tibor Benkő who received US Ambassador to Budapest David Cornstein in his office on 12 March.
The whole of the European Union has a vested interest in forming strategic partnerships with countries lying at its Eastern borders, including Moldova, and in keeping the options of EU membership and economic cooperation open, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated on Thursday in Chisinau after he had talks with Moldovan Prime Minister Ion Chicu during his official visit.