In 2000, the Interior Minister reported more new infections in an operational court meeting than in official statistics. Orban’s eyes did not blink either.

“Let’s take a look at the latest clues!” issue the instruction in the Prime Minister’s video uploaded to Facebook on Friday morning as the opening of the operational court meeting. “In the last 24 hours, 6,440 people are new patients,” says Interior Minister Sándor Pintér. However, according to koronavirus.gov.hu, in the last 24 hours, 4,440 new infections have been included in the statistics (and not ill, as the Interior Minister says), and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán also spoke about it shortly after the meeting. Kossuth morning radio show.

It could probably be a mistake, at least the figure would be exceptionally high. Most of the new infections, 6,495, have been recorded so far on Monday.

Since the discrepancy is significant, we asked the Ministry of the Interior, the operational staff, what happened. We will notify you as soon as we receive the reply.


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