All details about the government’s emergency measures!

Hungary’s government issued a decree late on Wednesday detailing measures to be taken under a state of emergency declared because of the coronavirus.

Government officials announced the state of emergency earlier on Wednesday and outlined most of the measures in the decree.

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The decree

• re-establishes controls along Hungary’s borders with Slovenia and Austria;
• prohibits entry into the country by foreign nationals arriving from Italy, China, South Korea and Iran, but orders mandatory self-quarantine for Hungarian nationals arriving from those areas;
• bans on-site lectures at universities;
• prohibits in-door events with more than 100 participants and outdoor ones with more than 500;
• suspends the launch of a state-subsidised foreign language summer study programme abroad for secondary school students by one year;
• cancels all school trips abroad;
• and extends the validity of official documents by 15 days from the revocation of the state of emergency.