The containment of the coronavirus epidemic has been successful; this is why the special legal order can now be lifted. However, in health care we must maintain a state of preparedness, Gergely Gulyás, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at the Thursday online ‘Governmentinfo’ press conference.
Hungary has successfully completed the first phase of the fight against the coronavirus, following which Hungary will be among the first EU Member States to terminate the special legal order, Justice Minister Judit Varga stated in an article published on the Brussels news portal EUObserver on Thursday.
In his opinion released on Thursday, Advocate General Sánchez-Bordona recommends that the Hungarian and Polish action brought against the amendment of the EU Directive relating to the rights of posted workers should be dismissed. However, the Hungarian government hopes that despite this the court will annul the challenged directive, Justice Minister Judit Varga told the Hungarian news agency MTI.
The country has done well in the containment of the coronavirus epidemic, the Government Spokesperson stressed on the public service television news channel M1 on Thursday evening.
“The crisis has made global market prospects uncertain, and for this reason the best domestic conditions must be provided for enterprises that are preparing to reboot their operations”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared on Thursday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, where he presented three more company directors with certificates of funding being provided within the framework of the competitiveness-increasing program.
Citizens of the two countries can cross the Hungarian-Slovenian border without restrictions from Thursday afternoon.
“The training of staff at the Information Office must always reflect new circumstances, and accordingly it must be modified”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday at the inauguration of the Information Office’s new training centre.
In Hungary the number of fatalities caused by coronavirus infection in relation to the total population is not high, the head infectology physician of the Szent László Hospital said at the Thursday online press conference of the Operational Group responsible for the containment of the coronavirus epidemic.
From Friday, the interior spaces of restaurants in Budapest will reopen to customers, hotels in the capital will be allowed to receive guests, sports events can be held and the outdoor facilities of national parks will also reopen to visitors, a staff member of the duty centre of the Operational Group responsible for the containment of the coronavirus epidemic said at an online press conference held on Thursday.
In a message, Rabbi of the Chabad community in Serbia Yehoshua Kaminetzky, Chief of Budapest’s Orthodox Rabbinate Báruch Oberlander and member of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Heritage in Hungary Public Endowment György Szabó thanked Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for Hungary’s help, as part of which they sent kosher food aid to the Jewish community in Belgrade amidst the supply difficulties caused by the coronavirus epidemic, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief informed the Hungarian news agency MTI.