Hungary sending disinfectants to Bosnia-Herzegovina

Hungary’s government is sending disinfectants to the Bisce (Bihács) region in Bosnia-Herzegovina, near the Croatian border, that is especially hard-hit by illegal migration, a government official said on Wednesday.

Tristan Azbej, the state secretary for aiding persecuted Christians and the coordinator of the Hungary Helps scheme, said the aid will be sent to 29 public institutions. The region has seen 10,000 arrivals in the past year, “which brought about a deterioration of public safety and pollution while a large part of the citizens, who used to live from tourism, lost their jobs,” he said. The migrants are squatting in buildings where an epidemic is spreading, he insisted.

Coronavirus: 4,704 new infections, 50 patients died last week in Hungary

Fully 4,704 new infections were confirmed last week, while there were 50 fatalities in connection with Covid-19, according to the website koronavirus.gov.hu, which published data from last week on Wednesday. The number of active infections stands at 13,084, the website said. Currently, 828 coronavirus patients are being treated in hospital, 14 intubated on a ventilator.

Altogether 6,420,354 people have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, with 6,206,710 having received a second jab, 3,902,535 a third, and 399,299 a fourth. The number of registered infections since the start of the pandemic reached 2,171,056 in Hungary, while the number of fatalities totalled 48,337. Fully 2,109,635 people have made a recovery.

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Source: MTI