Fully 108 patients, generally elderly with an underlying condition, have died over the past 24 hours, and 6,201 new coronavirus infections have been registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Sunday.
The government will help hospitals look after Covid patients by redirecting residents, the National Hospital Directorate General told MTI on Saturday.
Fully 146 patients, generally elderly with an underlying condition, have died over the past 24 hours, and 7,269 new coronavirus infections have been registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Saturday.
Hungary’s two-week lockdown from Monday will start “the last phase of the war against coronavirus”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told public broadcaster Kossuth Radio.
Catholic churches in Hungary will stay open and services will continue to be public, the Hungarian Catholic Bishops’ Conference said in a statement.
Hungary’s vaccination programme is progressing as planned but vaccinations with the AstraZeneca jab originally scheduled for this coming weekend will be delayed to a later date, a government official said.
Hungary’s opposition parties continued to criticise the government over what they called “a collapse” and “failure” of national pandemic protection measures.
Fully 143 patients, generally elderly with an underlying condition, have died over the past 24 hours, and 6,369 new coronavirus infections have been registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Friday.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán discussed vaccine production and defence and energy policy issues with Thierry Breton, the European Commissioner in charge of the EU single market, in Budapest, the PM’s press chief said.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told public Kossuth Radio that the average age of those that had died was 75.5 years, and warned that the elderly continued to be a high-risk group.
