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FM: Hungary will ask Austria to make border crossing faster for Hungarian commuters
Minister Szijjártó said new border controls had caused “serious disruptions” on the first week of their implementation.
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Hungarians allowed into Austria with no restrictions
As of Monday, Hungarians were able to travel to Austria with no coronavirus-related restrictions.
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100 migrants attempt to break through Röszke border crossing
The illegal entrants threw stones at the police while some 30 of them climbed on the border fence. Police thwarted the attempt.
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Travellers can now utilize humanitarian corridor to transit Hungary
Last week, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that citizens of non-EU countries, except for Serbia, would not be allowed to enter because “that would be against the health interest of...
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Hungary and Ukraine to open border crossings by Monday
The foreign minister said Hungary and Ukraine will reopen all five of their road border crossings by Monday morning.
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Operational Group: Movement restrictions saved 3 million lives in Europe
The Operational Group continues to perform its duties, collecting and analyzing data on a regular basis, said Lieutenant Colonel Róbert Kiss; meanwhile, Chief Medical Officer Cecília Müller added that the epidemic has reached a dormant phase.
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Coronavirus Update: Change to border restrictions now in effect
New rules came into force on June 2 regarding crossing of the state border of Hungary in passenger and freight traffic.
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Operational Group: The epidemic curve has been trending downward for 10 days
“We are constantly analyzing foreign and domestic data and striving to compare Hungarian data with other countries in the world to prepare for the next wave,” Cecília Müller reported today at the Operational Group presser.
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Operational Group: Wearing masks and keeping to a safe social distance is still important
Colonel Tibor Lakatos said today that following the social distancing rules could prevent a more serious second wave in the fall.
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Coronavirus Update: All Hungarian-Romanian border crossings to open tomorrow
Róbert Kiss, Lieutenant Colonel of the Hungarian Police Force, revealed today that all Romanian-Hungarian border crossings will open from 6 a.m. tomorrow morning.
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Coronavirus Update: Government sets up a humanitarian corridor for Romanians making their way from Austria to their homeland
The foreign minister said the current novel coronavirus epidemic shows just how much countries in the Carpathian Basin and the broader region rely on each other.
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Criminal proceedings launched against five migrants after illegally crossing Serbia-Hungary border
Csongrád County police said five men, two Syrian nationals aged 26 and 29, two 26-year-old Palestinian nationals and an Algerian national aged 25, were arrested near the border.