A plant built with state subsidy by the pharma company Meditop in Pilisborosjenő, NW of Budapest, was inaugurated this Thursday, It will be here that preparations used to treat coronavirus patients are manufactured and developed. During the inauguration ceremony, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga was of the view that thanks to the Health Support Program, […]
For several months now, Budapest Airport has been in continuous exchange with its airline partners and other airports around the globe to learn, create and roll out best practices for handling the smooth and safe return of meaningful passenger traffic to the airport, while adhering to all existing and potential future regulations. The airport operator […]
The Pákozd-Sukoró Arboretum and Game Park, SW of Budapest, has opened this Wednesday for the first time since November 10, 2020 and can be revisited in compliance with epidemiological rules. Available for visitors there are a 15-meter high lookout tower with a magnificent view of Lake Velence; a forestry educational trail; an interactive museum showing […]
The use of a home office will also help curb the epidemic, so the government is asking companies to allow their employees to work from home, Tamás Schanda, Parliamentary and Strategic Secretary of State at the Ministry of Innovation and Technology (ITM) said. The fewer encounters, the harder the epidemic can spread, so it’s very […]
179 people died of the new coronavirus infection in Hungary in the past 24 hours – a sad daily record –, mostly elderly, chronic patients, bringing the official number of deaths in this country to 16,325. The number of new infections was 5,653, increasing the total number of identified infections to 480,860 since the outbreak […]
Consumer prices were 3.1% higher on average in February 2021 than a year earlier, Hungary's Central Statistical Office reports. Relatively significant price rises were measured over the last 12 months for alcoholic beverages and tobacco, and price rises slightly exceeding the average for food and consumer durables. In one month, consumer prices increased by 0.7% on average, […]
Budapest Airport is introducing a quality assurance system encompassing all phases of pharmaceutical transportation in Hungary, with the management of the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The aim of the project, launched together with freight forwarder, transporter and ground handling companies, is to ensure that medical supplies should reach their targets under strictly controlled circumstances, […]
158 elderly and chronic patients have died in Hungary in the past 24 hours, bringing the official number of fatalities related to the new coronavirus infection in this country to 16,146. 6,494 new coronavirus infection cases were found, which has increased the number of identified infected people to a total of 475,207 since the beginning […]
Singapore Airlines (SIA) will be the world’s first airline to pilot the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) Travel Pass mobile application for digital health verification, starting with passengers travelling from Singapore to London from 15 to 28 March 2021. A SIA press statement says that this marks the second phase of its digital health verification […]
At the initiative of Vodafone Hungary, the Women in Technology Hungary Association – which aims to bring together women working in the field of technology – is launched by co-founders, Lenovo Hungary and BOOKR Kids. Vodafone Hungary says that with the establishment of Women in Technology Hungary Association, they want to create a common knowledge […]
There are 7,924 coronavirus patients hospitalized in Hungary, 806 of them on ventilators. 2,696 new infections have been identified in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of identified infections to 468,713 in this country. By Monday, 115 patients died, bringing the official number of deaths to 15,988. The number of people recovered from […]
Shaoang Liu of Hungary was crowned overall champion at the 2021 ISU World Short Track Speed Skating Championships in Dordrecht, the Netherlands this Sunday – with a huge helping hand from his brother, Shaolin Sándor Liu. As the tournament's website puts it, "the Liu siblings put on a tactical masterclass to help 22-year-old Shaoang seize […]
In the WittyLeaks series, Diplomac&Trade regularly publishes the personal accounts of ambassadors and other diplomatic mission leaders accredited to Budapest. This time, the Irish ambassador shares the story of an artist connecting his country with Hungary. Art and culture has the power to connect people, to bridge divides, either physical or emotional. I come to […]
The Park Atrium office building, overlooking Budapest's City Park, welcomes 2021 with a new identity, rearranged and optimized functionalities, and fresh interior design ideas for its ground floor lobby, main reception, conference center and community garden. A press release by the Landlord – a property fund based in Luxemburg and managed by REInvest Asset Management […]
Vodafone is the first among domestic service providers to enable 5G connection to its customers in the majority of the residential areas of Budapest: 5G has been connected to more than 200 base stations in the capital and in the surrounding metropolitan area. Vodafone has also announced that by the end of the first quarter […]
