The Music Hungary Association, the Hungarian Festival Association and the Hungarian Association of Event Organizers and Service Providers have compiled a package of expert proposals to help the Hungarian tourism and hospitality sectors. The proposal also calls for the introduction of a cultural VAT. So far, more than 370 people have signed up to the […]

Compared to the last few days, the number of new infections and deaths has both decreased, according to the latest data published on the government website on the coronavirus situation. Providing detailed information, the government website points out that the new coronavirus infection was detected in 1707 new Hungarian citizens; of the 70 deceased in […]

Hungary's electricity consumption record has been broken due to the sharp cooling of the weather that began on Thursday, the Hungarian Independent Transmission Operator Company Ltd. (Mavir) informed the state news agency MTI on Friday. According to verified data, the national system load reached 7,119 megawatts on Thursday between 5:45 p.m. and 6 p.m., a […]

Attila Kovács, founding owner and managing partner of DVM Group and Horizon Development real estate firms, has passed away at the age of 51. Attila Kovács graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Budapest University of Technology in 1994, followed by an internship in international architecture and project management in the United States, Sweden, […]

The new coronavirus infection was detected in another 1,862 Hungarians by Thursday (some 50% more than in the previous 24 hours), increasing the number of identified infections in Hungary to 381,875. The last time there such a high number of infections was was detected was on January 14, with 1,926 new patients. 97 patients died […]

The new coronavirus infection was detected in 1,279 new cases by Wednesday, increasing the number of identified infections in Hungary to 380,013. 98 patients died in the past 24 hours, bringing the official number of deaths to 13,347. The number of people recovered is currently 285,022, and the number of active people has been reduced […]

The capital's municipality has prepared a restart package for the companies involved in tourism and hospitality. Among other things, they will increase the possibilities of using public space, waive the rent for terraces almost completely and extend the discount on room rentals. Among other things, they want to increase the use of public space and […]

From Monday, heavy trucks and buses will be increasingly checked by the police on public roads throughout Hungary in the framework of a European level inspection 'Truck and Bus'. At the initiative of the Europeam Roads Policy Network (ROADPOL), commercial buses and heavy goods vehicles are stopped and checked at the roadside in Hungary betwen […]

The first shipment of AstraZeneca vaccine, authorized by the European Medicines Agency, arrived in Budapest from Oxford this Saturday. The consignment placed at the Budapest site of the pharmaceutical wholesale company Hungaropharma will be enough to vaccinate more than 20,000 people. This vaccine is planned to be given to chronic patients under 60 years of […]

Another 96 Hungarians fell victom to the new coronavirus infection - most of them elderly, chronic patients -, bringing the official number of COVID-19 related deaths to 13,026 in Hungary. The new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) was detected in another 1,561 Hungarian citizens in the apst 24 hours, thus increasing the number of infected people identified […]

By Thursday, another 1,652 Hungarian citizens contracted the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19), increasing the number of infected people in Hungary to 371,988. 93, mostly old and chronic patients died in the past 24 hours, thus, the number of deaths rose to 12,832. The number of recovered people is also constantly increasing, stnading currently at 274,308, […]

Almost three-quarters of the population spends less than HUF 50,000 a month on food, a new poll suggests. A survey by Pulzus Research for the business news site napi.hu also suggests that only three of 100 Hungarians have a monthly budget exceeding HUF 100,000. As napi.hu writes, it is a natural reaction on the part […]

The Hungarian residential property market started the new year with the strongest January figures of the past five years. The 11,185 transactions estimated by Duna House property agency tells the story of a 13% stronger turnover than in January 2020. The increase in demand had made itself felt in the data recorded by the property […]

The concentration of coronavirus in wastewater is rising again in two eastern Hungarian cities, Debrecen and Nyíregyháza. After declining in previous weeks, in week four of the year, the concentration of the new coronavirus hereditary in the wastewater samples rises again on a national average, the government coronavirus website states. The performed studies show that […]

1,307 new infections and 61 deaths were registered in the past 24 hours in the country and 222,005 Hungarians have so far been vaccinated against the new coronavirus. The number of identified infections increased to 367,586, while the official number of deaths is now 12,524. The number of people recovered is currently 262,968, and that […]