New Hungarian police contingents left for northern Macedonia and Serbia on Tuesday to assist border police operations, the state news agency MTI reports. The communication service of the Hungarian Police Headquarters (ORFK) announced in a statement on police.hu that the Hungarian police is committed to preventing illegal migrants from entering Hungary and the European Union. […]
There have not been so few new infections in Hungary for nine months as in the past 24 hours, according to daily epidemiological data. However, the number of daily fatalities per population in the pandemic still features this country amon the world in the world. 258 new cases of the coronavirus have been identified, bringing […]
Unlike in other countries, the government in Hungary ties - from time to time - the lifting of certain pandemic restrictions to the offical number of people inoculated with at least the first dose of any vaccine against the new coronavirus infection. Thus, the five million number means the further easing the regulations. As of […]
Although it was awarded to her last December, it was only this week that Hungarian biochemist Katalin Karikó was able to receive the Public Media Person of the Year Award in person. The Board of Trustees of the Public Media (MTVA) awarded the recognition to the Szolnok-born research biologist and biochemist as the most modern […]
The National Bank of Hungary (Magyar Nemzeti Bank - MNB) has issued a non-ferrous metal collector coin of HUF 2,000 to honor the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of Europe. It is the second time Hungary has tended to the tasks of the presidency in the international organisation representing the protection of human rights, democracy […]
The traditional sail launching ceremony opened the sailing season in Balatonfüred on Saturday, and this day also saw the start of the 878 Co. Grand Prix. The President of the Hungarian Sailing Federation, Zoltán Gerendy, said at the ceremony, which was held in a smaller circle than usual due to the coronavirus epidemic, that 164 […]
The National Bank of Hungary (Magyar Nemzeti Bank - MNB) will issue a HUF 10,000 silver collector coin and its non-ferrous metal version of HUF 2,000 named ‘XVI. UEFA Labdarúgó-Európa-bajnokság’ (16th UEFA Football European Championship) one month before the first game of the tournament to be held in Budapest. The collector coins were designed by […]
The official number of fatalities related to the new coronavirus infection has fallen under 100 a day in the past week but with the 71 Thursday deaths reported Friday morning, the total number is now 29,041. This number per 100,000 people of the population puts Hungary among the worst-hit countries of the world. 1190 new […]
In its monthly Transaction Number Estimate and Mortgage Forecast, the Hungarian real estate firm Duna House shows that in April 2021 13,511 property transactions were concluded and residential mortgage contracts worth HUF 92-93 billion were signed in the whole of Hungary. The report states that following the exceptional rally of Q1 2021 property market activity […]
This morning, more than 330,000 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines have again arrived in Hungary. This is the 21st shipment of the Comirnaty vaccine, bringing the total in Hungary to more than 3.2 million doses, the company said in a statement. Pfizer and BioNTech are currently forecast to produce and supply more than 2.5 billion doses […]
98 Hungarians died as a result the new coronavirus infection in the past 24 hours, bringing the total official number of deaths realted to the COVID-19 desease to 28,602. The last time the daily death toll was below 100 was on February 28. A total of 1,145 new infections were registered in the past day, […]
Due to the uncertainties caused by the epidemic situation, Sziget will not take place this year as it did last year. The organisers have announced that one of Europe's biggest festivals, which is Hungary's most important tourism event, is planning a big comeback in 2022. As the festival's website puts it, "Due to the global […]
Following an increase in the previous quarter, house prices fell by 1.4% in Budapest in the fourth quarter of 2020. Prices were 0.7% lower in the capital compared with the same period a year earlier. Down 0.4%, house prices also fell in rural cities in 2020 Q4. The annual increase in prices slowed from 8.7% […]
In week 17, the results of wastewater samples for coronavirus show strong fluctuations, with the decline of previous weeks halted. Sewage from most of the cities surveyed shows a stagnating trend, according to the National Center for Public Health. While in the northern and southern wastewater treatment areas of Budapest, Debrecen and Szolnok (the latter […]
Last year, the Hungarian government ordered the scrapping of parking fees in public areas, a measure they claimed would help avoid the spread of the new coronavirus infection. A new survey suggests the step did not really count for the population. The Hungarian government may soon end one of its most controversial pandemic measures, free […]
