Szijjártó says Russian vaccine will inoculate 1m citizens – OK, except the bit missing is - when?
Oh - and also the small detail of - how much? Photo: The illustration on the government website to the post on Minister Szijjártó's...
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Oh - and also the small detail of - how much? Photo: The illustration on the government website to the post on Minister Szijjártó's...
He's no longer as renowned in the west today as in 1992 (when I originally penned this), but arguably this powerful...
Hungary has come through the worst of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, Gergely Gulyás, head of the Prime Minister's Office,...
Someone asked me for a copy of an old Budapest Week yesterday. Any issue, he said. I had a bagfull in one of my (other) junk rooms. I put...
The much heralded arrival of usable vaccine – courtesy of the European Union and Brussels Bureaucracy, no less – together with the latest...
Coronavirus: Latest Official Data Looking Hopeful - but the Numbers Don't Stack Up All across Budapest, and I assume the country,...
Official Data in the Past Week is Hopeful As I left home at around 11.00 last Thursday I was surprised to find an oldish chappie in the...
Look, No Queues! Deaths related to the Covid-19 virus surged to 1,196 last week, breaking the four figurethreshold for the first time and...
And the Bad: Covid Numbers Explode - Infections top 6,000 on four consecutive days Miklós Kásler, Hungary's Minister of Human Resources...
Photo: The Coronvirus does not pick and choose - an official poster urging vigilance in the fight against the pandemic Mixed news...
Covid-19 cases by county in Hungary. Active infections now stand at 106,265, 75% of the total 140,961 cited here since the start of the...
UPDATED - New measures announced on Monday morning - see link at end Photo: A government-sponsored placard informs the public that the...
The coronavirus pandemic in Hungary this week took on a new turn: as infections and deaths rose to unprecedented levels, independent...
Just one week ago, a Czech-based friend emailed me after reading the latest post on the state of Covid-19 in Hungary. “Compared to here,...
They've had a makeover - but still 1950s Soviet design underneath - an M3 Metro Train Since BKK, the Budapest Transport Centre, hasn't...
László Hegedűs was the Man who Brought Western Rock to Hungary - including the likes of Carlos Santana, Jethro Tull, Depeche Mode and...
Govt Website Covid-19 Summary Today It's beginning to sound like a broken record (vinyl, as used to be) – and yes, I know it's similar or...
Alas, another week of bad news on the coronavirus front, with several records broken. We had 1,374 new infections on Friday – a new peak,...
The 100E express bus was a Godsend for the cost-sensitive traveller when the Budapest Transport Centre (BKK) introduced the service a...
This morning, the government website reported 1,322 new coronavirus infections, a number that beats the previous worst-case 24-hour...