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Daily News Hungary Daily News Hungary · 05/03/2021
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PM Orbán revealed new details about the tightened restrictions

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ORBÁN Viktor

Photo: MTI/Miniszterelnöki Sajtóiroda/Fischer Zoltán

Hungary’s two-week lockdown from Monday will start “the last phase of the war against coronavirus”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told public Kossuth Radio on Friday morning.

The prime minister said that creches will stay open for the time being, unlike kindergartens, schools, and most shops.

Florists will also be allowed to open on March 8, international women’s day, he added.

Orbán said he was certain that the lockdown would be “the home run” in the fight against the virus, adding that the government had “no other choice” than to introduce further restrictions after experts had warned of “disastrous” consequences unless they make the move.

“We must now lock down so as to open up around Easter,” the prime minister said, adding that the government was waiting for voters’ feedback in a national survey concerning a gradual easing of restrictions.

According to the prime minister, services crucial for people’s daily routine such as grocery stores and shops selling tools for spring garden works will stay open, but “everything else” including restaurants, casinos, hotels, and shops selling electronics or entertainment will stay closed.

Orbán expects spike in COVID hospitalisations as infections spread

Hungary’s prime minister said on Friday that up to 15,000-20,000 people could enter hospital as coronavirus infections surge, up from just over 6,800 now, which will put a big strain on the healthcare system in the coming weeks.

Viktor Orbán told state radio that “there will be enough (hospital) beds and ventilators.”

He said the lockdown was needed to prevent a “tragedy”.

“We will see pressure rising on hospitals,” he told state radio.

He said with a vaccination campaign accelerating, by early April around 2.4 people could have had at least one shot of a COVID vaccine, rising to about 4.7 million by early May.

Since mid-November, Hungary has had a night-time curfew, hotels and restaurants have been closed, and remote learning has been in place in all secondary schools.

Last week it became the first European Union country to start inoculating people with China’s Sinopharm vaccine after rolling out Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine although neither has been granted approval for emergency use by the bloc.

The Russian and Chinese shots are being administered along with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and shots developed by U.S. company Moderna and AstraZeneca, all of which have received the EU green light.

As of Friday, over 862,000 people in Hungary, which has close to 10 million people, had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

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Read alsoAnother Covid-19 numbers: more than six thousand new infected, 143 dead in Hungary

Source: MTI, Reuters

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3 Comments

  1. Rusty Stubbs : says:
    05/03/2021 at 14:19

    Baseball does permit extension of the ball game beyond 9 innings- if scores across the home plate are tied.
    Regrettable – think we will in Hungary be going into extensive extension of ball game time.
    Need more supplies to survive than peanuts or cracker jacks ,cokes and popcorn to stay the distant till a result is called – TIME – end of game.

  2. petrus dijkzeul says:
    05/03/2021 at 14:35

    Lockdowns only cause damage to the economy, and who wants that? There is simple no evidence that this will reduce infections, people then socialize in their homes, so it doesn’t fix anything. Other countries already preceded, with no result.

  3. Mario says:
    05/03/2021 at 15:42

    What about the places which matter the most to the Dear Eternal Leader? Are football stadia and casinos going to remain open? We all know that they are miraculously immune to covid, don’t we?
    Orbanistan is hopeless.

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