In the past three days, 5,223 new cases of coronavirus infection have been confirmed (some 700 per day less than the number published last Friday), while the number of fatalities related to the new coronavirus epidemic was 84 over the week-end (ten per day less than the number published last Friday), according to official figures […]
2,651 new infections have been confirmed in the past 24 hours – 251 less than a day before –, bringing the total official number of identified infections to 1,836,919 since the start of the outbreak, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Thursday. Thirty-five mostly elderly, chronic patients died – seven fewer than a day before –, bringing the […]
Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony and Rafal Trzaskowski, the Mayor of Warsaw, commemorated the Day of Polish-Hungarian Friendship with a joint video this Wednesday. In the video, Gergely Karácsony said that Polish and Hungarian patriots helped each other fight for civil transformation in 1848, for the overthrow of communist dictatorships in 1956 and in the 1980s, […]
The Merzse marsh, the only wetland habitat in Budapest, located in Rákosmente, in the southeast of of the Hungarian capital, has been threatened by a shortage of water for years, in spite of rehabilitation efforts by the Municipality of Rákosmente. Budapest Airport, the operator of Ferenc Liszt International Airport, says it has joined the leadership […]
Over the past three days, 134 patients have died, bringing the official number of new coronavirus related deaths in this country to 45,095. The government website koronavirus.gov.hu also reports that 5,839 new cases have been confirmed in this period. This is 1,946 more per day than the last figure the previous weekend. Since the beginning […]
The Hungarian government has ordered the evacuation of the refugee reception stations at Budapest's Keleti and Nyugati railway stations, where NGOs have been helping refugees from Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion. These stations will now be used only as information points, and refugees fleeing the war will be transferred by bus from […]
From 8 am this Wednesday morning, the Teachers' Union and the Democratic Union of Teachers called a nationwide indefinite strike in Hungary. They are demanding a pay raise for teachers, a reduction in their compulsory teaching hours and an increase in the salaries of non-teaching staff working in schools. Teachers participated in the strike not […]
The number of people actively infected with the new coronavirus in Hungary has fallen by more than 8,000, and the number of hospitalized people by 79 over the long week-end. The number of fatalities went up by 178 to a total close to 45,000. Since last Friday, 4,902 people have been diagnosed with the new […]
The Money Museum of the National Bank of Hungary (MNB) will open an interactive exhibition in the newly renovated Postapalota (‘Postal Palace’) from March 16, with a special focus on young people, the Hungarian state news agency MTI reports. The interactive exhibition on the history of money and the operation and future of money management […]
On Sunday, 4,006 people, including 1,239 children, arrived in Budapest by train to escape the war in Ukraine, the Budapest Metropolitan Police (BRFK) said on Monday on police.hu. According to the statement, most of them asked for information and travelled on individually or went to relatives. In the capital and in rural accommodation, 34 people, […]
Flights are arriving and departing seamlessly and as scheduled, passenger processes are continuing as usual at Budapest's Ferenc Liszt International Airport. Flights to Ukraine and Russia are still suspended, but the war in Ukraine is not affecting flights to other destinations. The airport operator 'Budapest Airport' says that together with the Airport Police Directorate, it […]
AbbVie and Gedeon Richter Plc. have announced a new co-development and license agreement to research, develop and commercialize novel dopamine receptor modulators for the potential treatment of neuropsychiatric diseases. The collaboration is based on the results of preclinical research carried out by Richter and includes several new chemical entities selected for development. AbbVie and Richter […]
The Hungarian State Opera announced its 2022-2023 thematic season under the title ‘Myth & History’. In the renovated Ybl Palace on Andrássy Avenue, the opera house will also be offering a number of new spaces with new features, new publications and a chamber exhibition. In its 139th season, the Opera is presenting more than 500 […]
Greenpeace Hungary held a peace demonstration with the participation of thousands of people on Heroes' Square in Budapest on Wednesday evening. The crowd formed a huge luminous peace sign with torches in hand. The participants of the event protested against the invasion of Ukraine and expressed their sympathy for the innocent people suffering because of […]
The new buildings have been erected and the production of the new manufacturing equipment is also on schedule at the site of the French SUEZ Group in Oroszlány where the progress of its investment of some EUR 30 million was celebrated in a ceremony this . By expanding its ultrafiltration membrane manufacturing capacity and building […]
