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The new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) was detected in 4,440 new Hungarian citizens, increasing the number of infected people in Hungary to 165,901. Most of the 96 deaths were elderly, chronic patients, bringing the number of victims to 3,568 and 38,074 have already recovered. The number of active infections is 124,259. 23% of the actively infected, 26% of the victims and 27% of those recovered are from Budapest. 7,512 coronavirus patients are hospitalized, 604 of whom are on ventilators.
The number of infected people is growing exponentially across Europe, in neighboring countries and in Hungary, with more and more people requesting hospital care. The epidemic cannot be stopped, the goal is to stop the epidemic and protect the performance of hospitals. This is the purpose of the new announced emergency protection measures. The municipality will evaluate the impact and need of the restrictive measures currently in force at its meeting next Wednesday. We continue to ask for the cooperation and discipline of the Hungarian people to comply with the rules! they write.
The police strictly monitor compliance with the rules, impose fines and close places where regulations are not followed.
The soldiers support the work of the police in various cities in the country and relieve health workers in 93 hospitals in tasks that can be performed without a professional health qualification and are in charge of the surveillance and protection of designated individual institutions. To ease the burden of health care, we also have college students participate in health and medical training. The Ministry of Innovation and Technology informs you in a letter that teachers and nursing staff can participate in nationwide rapid tests and hospital patient care activities as part of a 2-week paid internship organized by government offices starting of Monday. Rapid tests of social workers will also begin.
There is a curfew between 8 am and 5 pm, everyone must be home by 8 pm. So far, the police have acted in a total of 4,364 cases for violating the curfew. A case of exemption from the curfew is work, which, however, must be justified. You can download a sample certificate here
Stores, with the exception of pharmacies and gas stations, can stay open until 7pm and after the curfew expires, so they can open at 5am at the earliest. Service providers and services not mentioned in the regulation (eg hairdresser, massage therapist, personal trainer) can normally operate under the curfew rules.
The rules introduced so far on the use of masks and maintaining distance are still valid. with the obligation to wear a mask in some public areas of a settlement of more than 10,000 inhabitants. It is the responsibility of the mayor to designate the areas. It is not yet mandatory to wear a mask during sports activities, as well as in parks or green areas.
All meetings are prohibited. Restaurants cannot accept guests, they can only stay there to bring food. Hotels cannot accept tourists, only guests arriving for business, economic or educational reasons. It is prohibited to carry out any type of event, including cultural events and Christmas fairs. Sports matches must be held behind closed doors. The use of leisure facilities is prohibited, including in particular fitness rooms, indoor swimming pools, museums, libraries, cinemas and zoos, ice rinks. Nurseries, kindergartens and elementary schools are open up to the eighth grade as usual, with special institutional protection measures determined by the principal. High schools and universities have moved to a digital agenda. The government has issued a decree whereby a fixed Internet access service will be available free of charge for thirty days to students and teachers of digital education in public education and vocational training.
Currently, the Operational Court has ordered extraordinary breaks in 404 kindergartens (15%) and 78 primary schools (3%), digital curricula in 487 primary education classes (19%) and 38 primary schools (1.5%).
Private and family events (ex: birthdays) can be held for up to 10 people. Funerals can be held for up to 50 people. Weddings can be held without a wedding, however only certain people can attend the event.
In Hungary, everyone has a hospital bed, healthcare, a ventilator, and with the protection measures just introduced, the goal is to keep it that way. The protective measures are intended to curb the epidemic and therefore also to protect the performance of medical care. In order to continue providing hospital care to coronavirus patients with a growing number of patients, additional capacity-building measures were ordered: deferred surgeries were suspended, the number of hospitals included in care and hospital beds booked increased. for coronavirus patients.
The government is negotiating a coronavirus vaccine on several fronts so that Hungarians can get vaccinated as soon as possible. and promulgated a decree that simplifies and accelerates the import into Hungary of vaccines and medicines manufactured abroad against the coronavirus. A sample of a Russian vaccine against the coronavirus arrived in Budapest on Thursday. A full vaccine dossier will arrive soon and a full analytical study will begin. The government is negotiating and purchasing everything possible for foreign vaccines, having so far contracted 12 million doses of vaccines from three manufacturers: AstraZeneca in Oxford, Janssen Pharmaceutica in the United States and Pfizer.
In order to slow the spread of the community, we will continue to avoid places where there are a lot of people inside, preferably keep social distance, wash your hands frequently and thoroughly. Anyone who has received the official home quarantine order for a stay abroad or for any other reason must strictly comply. Anyone with symptoms should not go into the community but stay home and notify their GP by phone.
Free flu vaccines are already being given as part of health protection. The provision of influenza vaccines to GPs is ongoing.
The protection of elderly and chronic patients is of the utmost importance. Older people are also asked to pay close attention to themselves and general precautions. Visiting hospitals and nursing homes is prohibited. And nursing home administrators must do everything possible to prevent infection. If a focal point takes place in a social institution or anywhere else in the community, the epidemiological deployment unit will take the necessary actions.
In addition to maintaining health protection, the government is working on additional economic and family protection measures, the statement concludes.
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