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.
The national board of teacher union PDSZ demanded on Friday that all public educational institutions in Hungary should be closed without delay. PDSZ said in a statement that schools are being closed in Austria from Tuesday until December 8 as a result of the novel coronavirus epidemic. Referring to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s remarks about […]Continue reading
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.
Even though less than two weeks ago, Prime Minister Orbán said that no further tightening of the restrictions was needed, due to the worsening epidemic situation, the government has announced extremely strict new measures since last week. Summary. In September, the spread of the novel coronavirus started to accelerate in Hungary, which was evident not […]Continue reading
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