Breaking news! No flights from UK, Hungary suspends curfew for one night on Dec 24
The government has decided to suspend the night curfew introduced as a result of coronavirus for one night on December 24, Róbert Kiss, the deputy head of the operative board coordinating response to the epidemic, said on Monday.
The curfew regulation was introduced in early November to contain the spread of the coronavirus. It was later extended until January 11.
Kiss told an online press conference that children aged under 14 will not count in a ten-person limit in force affecting private and family events.
The government has also decided to ban as of midnight December 22 all passenger flights, including private planes for business travel, arriving from Britain.
Freight transport can continue, he added.
Chief medical officer: Hungary prepared for vaccination
Hungary is prepared for giving vaccinations against coronavirus and all the conditions are set for handling and storing vaccine supplies, the chief medical officer said on Monday.
Cecilia Müller told a press conference of the operative board coordinating response to the epidemic that the European Medicines Agency is expected to give licence to the vaccine for European Union countries at a meeting today. Once this happens, the inoculation of health workers will start within a few days, she said.
The first shipment Hungary is to receive will include a “symbolic amount” which will be enough for vaccinating 5,000 people only but further shipments are expected before the end of the year and supplies are expected to be continual later on, she said.
Once all demands for vaccination by health workers have been met, inoculation will continue under the national vaccination plan.
The first vaccinations will be administered at the South Pest Central hospital in Budapest and will continue in 25 other locations.
She said current research showed that the vaccines available will also be effective against new variants of the virus.
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Source: MTI