Starting at midnight, an extraordinary legal order will take effect in Hungary and the government will introduce a curfew between midnight and dawn. The discos will be closed, three seats in the cinema, theater, stadium will be left empty as spectators. Parking will once again be free, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced on Facebook.

Coronavirus: the second wave

Half a year after the spring outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, 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 signs, the second wave also reached Hungary. Follow our news!

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The spread of the epidemic has accelerated in Hungary and in Europe, in Austria there are one and a half times more people per million people than in Hungary, and in Western Europe the situation is even worse, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on his page From Facebook. This comparison is important because, in his experience, Hungary follows Austria with a delay of 5-7 days.

If that is the case, and it has been so until now, by mid-December the hospitals will have reached their capacity limit.

The epidemic is putting the lives of the elderly and chronically ill at risk, and it is time for the government to take more steps to protect the functioning of hospitals and the lives of the elderly.

Quick action will be necessary. If the virus is spreading rapidly, the government must too.

Starting at midnight today, we will reintroduce the state of emergency.

The Prime Minister said he would ask the National Assembly to extend it by 90 days.

At the government meeting, new decisions were made: at events, sporting events, cinemas, theaters, you can only sit in one out of 3 chairs, and the use of the mask is mandatory without exception.

The authorities will inspect all events, impose fines if necessary, and venues where the rules are not followed will be closed immediately.

Whoever does not wear a mask can endanger the lives of others.

It is impossible to enforce the rules in nightclubs, so at the suggestion of the operating tribe, the government decided to close the nightclubs.

a curfew will be applied between midnight and 5 am,

which means that everyone must get home before midnight.

In order to reduce congestion on public transport, the government has ordered traffic congestion at peak hours and parking is once again free.

Doctors’ salaries are being raised and hospitals have the means to defend themselves. We are third in Europe in terms of hospital beds and world leaders in terms of ventilators. According to Orbán, doctors and nurses continue to do their work at a world-class level and do everything possible to heal patients. That’s a lot, almost superhuman, but it’s not enough. The final solution is a vaccine that is already in sight. It should be continued until the vaccine arrives. We are negotiating with the European Union, Russia, China and Israel. The situation is serious, but once in spring we have already succeeded. If we unite and follow the rules, we will succeed together again, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán concluded in his short statement on Facebook.

These measures were more flexible than in the spring, when emergency and life-saving surgeries were stopped for weeks to ease the burden of medical care, as was the practice.

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