The state of healthcare, financial/political corruption and poverty – these are the three biggest worries of Hungarians according to a new international poll by Ipsos. 56% Hungarians worry about health problems (this being the highest value globally), but corruption (54%, also the highest value in the world) and poverty (49%, third highest value after Russia […]
The Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities (Mazsihisz) and the Budapest Jewish Community (BZSH) have closed down the synagogues in Budapest for two weeks and impose a ban on visiting Mazsihisz's Budapest hospital and BZSH nursing home. The Mazsihisz website writes that the leadership of Mazsihisz learned on Sunday that a relative of one of the […]
Based on samples taken from wastewater, the number of active coronavirus cases is not expected to increase in the next few weeks, Márta Vargha, senior water hygiene expert at the National Center for Public Health (NNK). The examination of wastewater started in May, i.e. during the period of the epidemic, first in Budapest and then […]
In accordance with its portfolio clean-up strategy, the Hungarian National Asset Management Inc. (MNV) will continue to put on the market real estate that is not necessary for the performance of state tasks. According to MNV's statement, after the situation caused by the pandemic has eased, it will be possible to continue the sales campaign, […]
The National Bank of Hungary (MNB) has warned that HUF 2,000 and 5,000 banknotes issued before 2016 may not be replaced with the new banknotes free of charge at every bank and postal office after July 31, 2020. A statement by MNB says that after July 31, 2020, post offices and credit institutions may continue […]
The number of identified coronavirus infections in Hungary increased by eighteen to 4,333, there are no new deaths, according to the government website koronavirus.gov.hu. The number of deaths from the infection remained unchanged at 596, and 3,223 people had already recovered. The number of active infections is 514. 82 coronavirus patients are treated in hospital, […]
Qatar Airways has issued a statement on the judgment of the International Court of Justice to which it had turned concerning the blockade of Qatar. The airline has also announced to resume flights to the Maldives. Qatar Airways welcomes the Judgment of the International Court of Justice affirming that the ICAO Council has the jurisdiction […]
A one year old red panda arrived from Germany to the Budapest Zoo and the institution's Butterfly garden , delayed by the pandemic, could finally open for this year. In a statement sent to the Hungarian news agency MTI, zoo officials say Bendegúz, a one-year-old male red panda arrived to accompany Aurora, a nearly ten-year-old […]
The Hungarian government has announced restrictions on entry in into the country connection with the coronavirus epidemic. The Minister heading the Prime Minister's Office, Gergely Gulyás said this Sunday that the government decided to classify countries into three categories – red, yellow and green – in terms of the severity of the coronavirus epidemic and […]
The National Bank of Hungary (MNB) has issued a silver collector coin with a face value of HUF 10,000 to honor the 175th anniversary of Hungarian painter Pál Szinyei Merse’s birth and the 100th anniversary of his death. The collector coin, which also has its non-ferrous metal version with a face value of HUF 2,000, […]
Three patients died and the number of confirmed new coronavirus infections in Hungary increased by four in the past 24 hours in Hungary. With three deaths, the official number of pandemic related fatalities increased to 582 according to the government website dedicated to the COVID-19 pandemic situation in the country, and with four new cases, […]
In the first five months of 2020, the number of births (36,527) was 4.8% more and that of deaths (54,656) 5.8% less in Hungary than in the corresponding period of 2019 according to preliminary data by the country’s Central Statistical Office. As a result, the natural decrease declined by 22% or 5,042 compared to January–May 2019. […]
Possibly the most popular figure in Hungary, widely respected and loved horticulturist György Bálint passed away this Sunday evening, just over a month before his 101st birthday. A gardening expert and former TV host, best known for Hungarians as 'Bálint gazda' (Master Bálint) did even in the last days of his life what he had […]
The National Bank of Hungary (MNB) issues a silver collector coin with a face value of HUF 10,000 and its non-ferrous metal version of HUF 2,000 to mark the 30th anniversary of the re-establishment of the Budapest Stock Exchange on June 21, 2020. As a successor of the first stock exchange in Hungary established over […]
The number of deaths related to the COVID-19 pandemic has not increased in the last 24 hours in Hungary. It remains at 568. The new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) was detected in only two more people in the country, thus increasing the number of infected people identified in Hungary to 4,081. The number of people who […]
