It is important that as many diabetes patients as possible should stay at home, continue medications or insulin therapy, and regularly check their blood sugar levels, the President of the Hungarian Diabetes Society stated in a video message posted on the government’s Facebook account.
From Tuesday, the publication of Hungarian data regarding the coronavirus epidemic will change; data will include the age, sex and underlying chronic illnesses of the deceased. Due to a technical changeover, the www.koronavirus.gov.hu website will not be available for a few hours.
The hard part of the coronavirus epidemic has yet to come when the stage of group incidences will be replaced by mass incidences, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister said on Kossuth Radio’s programme ‘Sunday Paper’.
The government has launched a comprehensive information campaign so that all Hungarians are fully informed about the most important details of restrictions on movement.
The government is releasing an information film about the protection of jobs, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister announced.
The decree on restrictions on movement announced by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Friday morning has been published in Magyar Közlöny [Hungarian Gazette].
The government has adopted another extraordinary measure in the interest of protecting the Hungarian people’s health care supply for the duration of the state of danger. They have banned the exportation from Hungary of a pharmaceutical raw material used for curing coronavirus patients.
The government will regroup more than HUF 15 billion for the procurement of health care supplies used in the effort to contain the coronavirus, the spokesperson of the Government Communication Centre said on Kossuth Radio’s programme ‘Good morning, Hungary’ on Wednesday.
The spokesperson for the Government Communication Centre believes it is hypocritical that while opposition Members of Parliament refuse to grant the government a mandate for an effective containment effort, Mayor of Budapest Gergely Karácsony will decide on issues concerning Budapest in local ordinances on his own.
It is necessary to extend and declare a state of danger in the interest of the swift adoption of decisions that serve to protect human lives or jobs, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister stressed on the Tuesday morning programme of the public service television news channel M1.