In the early hours of Monday morning, the protective health care supplies ordered by the Hungarian government successfully landed in Budapest, the Ministry for Innovation and Technology informed the Hungarian news agency MTI.
They said on 20 March the experienced pilots – who reached Shanghai travelling across six countries, covering a distance of more than nine thousand kilometres in a journey taking over 50 hours in total – took off in Wizz Air’s newest aircraft from Shanghai to fly almost 11 tonnes of medical supplies to Budapest. The Wizz Air flight number W6 9012 carrying medical supplies arrived in the capital with 30,050 protective gowns and 82,000 surgical face masks on board. The plane arriving from Shanghai was received by Deputy Minister of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology Tamás Schanda, Deputy State Secretary for Public Administration of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology Balázs Gazsó and Béla Merkely, Rector of Semmelweis University.
The communication highlights that the availability of protective supplies is crucial in the containment of the coronavirus, and the government is doing everything it can to increase supplies. Based on a commission from the Ministry for Innovation and Technology, the present procurement was conducted by Semmelweis University. In the near future, another consignment of medical supplies will arrive in Hungary. The stocks now received will be distributed primarily among health care workers of whom we must take especially good care and to whom we are all grateful for their service, they wrote.