Local governments have been given the authority also for this weekend to decide on issues related to the use of public areas within their own competence due to the coronavirus epidemic, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister said on Friday on the public service television news channel M1.
Greece is in a critical situation as the coronavirus has appeared in refugee camps situated on its inland territories, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said on the Friday evening programme of the public service television news channel M1.
As there is no vaccine against the coronavirus, the most we can do is slow down its spread, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister said on the public service television news channel M1 on Thursday.
Thanks to the disciplined containment effort, we have succeeded in flattening the curve of the spread of the virus in Hungary, Spokesperson of the Government Communication Centre Örs Farkas said on the public service television news channel M1 on Thursday morning.
As part of the effort to contain the coronavirus epidemic, Toyota Hungary has offered twenty vehicles to the National Ambulance Service, health care workers and large aid organisations, the head of the government task force coordinating volunteers and donations said on Monday in Budaörs.
Further planes carrying protective supplies, including overalls, face masks and ventilators, are arriving in Hungary in the next few days, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister said on the public service television news channel M1 on Thursday.
The virus is now present throughout the country, potentially anyone can become infected. Therefore, people can do the most by staying at home, Spokesperson of the Government Communication Centre Örs Farkas said on Wednesday morning on the public service television channel M1.
Based on the authorisation granted by the Fundamental Law and on the basis of the Act on the Containment of the Coronavirus, the government has implemented certain procedural measures.
In the interest of the effective containment of the coronavirus epidemic, based on the authorisation granted by Parliament, the government has ordered the extension of the effect of the extraordinary emergency measures adopted in connection with the state of danger declared on 11 March.
The state of emergency and the extraordinary measures are congruent with the Treaties and Hungarian Constitution, Minister of State for International Communication and Relations Zoltán Kovács stated in a Twitter message on Tuesday in response to a statement issued by the President of the European Commission regarding emergency measures adopted by Member States.