From Monday the restrictions on movement in Budapest will cease to have effect; however, certain protective precautionary measures will remain in force, the head of the duty centre of the Operational Group responsible for the containment of the coronavirus epidemic said at an online press conference held on Sunday.
Neighbourhood watch volunteers are also a great help at the time of the coronavirus epidemic, Zsolt Nyitrai, the Prime Minister’s appointee for priority social affairs said in a video message posted on the government’s Facebook account on Sunday.
In accordance with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s announcement, the restrictions on movement introduced in Budapest due to the coronavirus epidemic will be lifted at midnight on Sunday, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said.
From Sunday midnight, the restrictions on movement will cease to have effect in Budapest. From 18 May, Monday the following rules will enter into force:
The Saturday background discussions attended by specialists confirmed that “in Budapest, too, we have curtailed the intensity of the epidemic, and so also in Budapest we can change over – even if with prudence and caution – to the second phase of the containment effort,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a message streamed on Facebook on Saturday.
The government decree providing for the protective measures in effect from Monday in relation to the entire country with the exception of Budapest has been published in Magyar Közlöny [Hungarian Gazette], a staff member of the duty centre of the Operational Group responsible for the containment of the coronavirus said at an online press conference held on Saturday.
In Hungary the epidemic curve is stable, and in the fight against the virus there are promising medicine and vaccine experiments under way around the world, the head infectology physician of the Szent László Hospital said at the Saturday online press conference of the Operational Group responsible for the containment of the coronavirus epidemic.
During the epidemic, the role of families has gained in significance; in the past two months, families have been required to adapt to changed circumstances, the Minister of State for Family and Youth Affairs at the Ministry of Human Capacities stated at the Saturday online press conference of the Operational Group responsible for the containment of the coronavirus epidemic.
In the Carmelite Monastery, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán conducted consultations with leading medical experts with respect to the upcoming measures related to the coronavirus situation, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief informed the Hungarian news agency MTI on Saturday morning.
Hungary does not wish to change its tried and tested migration policy, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister stated on the Friday evening programme of the public service television news channel M1.