What happened today in Hungary? – September 20, 2021

Stories you might have missed today:

• Hungary is well-known for its thermal baths and hot springs, and a new top 10 list confirms it. – Check out the Lonely Planet list
• Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, addressing lawmakers on Monday, said that Hungary’s strategy for beating the coronavirus pandemic would depend on its vaccination campaign. Orbán: The Hungarian opposition is in the pocket of the Americans
• The background IT system collapsed in the first hours of the primary last Saturday. First, the opposition parties said that too many voters wanted to use the system on Saturday simultaneously. Later they said that the Hungarian government was behind the system failure. Now they say that the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks came from China.

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• Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó on Monday slammed “the Liberal mainstream” as the cause of a “weakening European Union, the extreme pessimism of the populace of many Western European countries” and for building an “opinion dictatorship”. Read more HERE.
• Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, in 2016, it accounted for 1.2 million deaths across the EU which equals 25.7 % of the total number of deaths. The highest cancer mortality rates were concentrated in eastern EU Member States, details HERE.
• Hungary reports 1,072 new COVID-19 infections over the weekend – latest numbers HERE

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