Today 20.00 M1 – Viktor Orbán writes on his Facebook page. The prime minister has not released any further details, but is likely to make a statement on the worsening coronavirus epidemic.

Coronavirus: the second wave

Half a year after the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in the spring, the second wave of the pandemic has arrived. The radical increase in the number of infected is forcing more and more countries to re-impose restrictions, despite the fact that the world economy has not even recovered from the effects of the spring outbreak. According to the posters, the second wave also reached Hungary. Follow our news!

Viktor Orbán attended the meeting of the Operational Staff during the morning and announced that as of October 1 it will be mandatory to perform a temperature test before entering the school. He also said that there are currently more than ten thousand free hospital beds in Hungary.

By Saturday morning, the new coronavirus infection had been detected in 916 new Hungarian citizens, increasing the number of infected people in Hungary to 11,825.


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