Budapesty The Budapest's Local News Journal

Four Covid-19 patients, all elderly and with underlying illnesses, have died in the past 24 hours, while the number of registered coronavirus infections in Hungary has risen by 726 to 13,879, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Tuesday morning. The number of fatalities stands at 646, and 4,130 people have made a recovery. …

The government’s aim is to prevent a second wave of the novel coronavirus epidemic and has decided to maintain the current level of restrictions, said Gergely Gulyás, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office. In April, the government announced that events larger than 500 people cannot be held until August 15th. A …

The government has published the regional breakdown of active coronavirus cases for the first time after weeks of only disclosing the total number of cases nationwide. According to the newly published data, the vast majority of active cases are found in Budapest, while Békés remains the only county without any active coronavirus …

Hungary’s three-month rolling average jobless rate up to end-June was 4.6 percent, 0.5 percentage point higher than the previous three-month period and up 1.3 percentage points from twelve months earlier, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said on Wednesday. The rate covers unemployment among those between the ages of 15 and 74. In …