Coronavirus – 71 schools suspended teaching in Hungary

Altogether 71 schools have suspended teaching due to the coronavirus in Hungary, while 43 schools are providing education online, a government official on Monday told the press conference of the operative body responsible for handling the coronavirus epidemic.

Another 388 individual classes have introduced digital education in schools that still provide a portion of their teaching in the classroom, State Secretary Zoltán Maruzsa said.

Róbert Kiss, a member of the operative body, said that many restaurants, bars and shops were still flouting mandatory closing times imposed last week.

Over the weekend, the authorities had to close down five Budapest shops and restaurants for thirty days, he said.

Chief Medical Officer Cecília Müller noted that the targeted testing of essential workers started in social care institutions on Friday. From Monday, health-care workers and teachers are also being tested with antigen rapid tests, she said.

LATEST NUMBERS TODAY: 130,722 active infections in Hungary

Orbán: Mass testing, school protection in focus

Efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus will focus on targeted mass testing of essential workers and on keeping schools operational this week, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Monday morning, after meeting the operative body responsible for handling the epidemic.

“We are fighting in schools and kindergartens so that they can remain open,” Orbán said in a video posted on Facebook.

Orbán said

the public education system had “withstood the challenges last week, and we hope it will do so this week too.”

The majority of the 47,000 employees in social care homes and 191,000 in public education facilities are expected to sign up for the testing, which is voluntary, Orbán said. In order to complete such a task, 2,000 university students have been employed, he added.

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Source: MTI