State Secretary: Ready, Set, Go for Secondary School Exams
Everything is in place for final secondary school exams to start on Monday, according to the state secretary in charge of public education.
Zoltán Maruzsa, speaking at a press conference of the central board coordinating the response to the coronavirus epidemic, noted that the exams will comprise written papers and that will be sat in line with epidemic-related rules.
Fully 111,750 students will be taking the exams in the next few weeks at 1,159 locations, Maruzsa said.
The lower grades of primary schools (grades 1-4) and kindergartens opened on the 19th of April. According to the decision of the Orbán government, since teachers received their first dose of vaccination before the opening, and the home-schooling of little children is often unmanageable, the opening of kindergartens and lower grades of primary school is […]Continue reading
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Vaccine Impact Reflected in Falling Daily Cases, Chief Medical Officer Says
The impact of Covid-19 vaccines can already be seen in Hungary’s trend of declining daily new cases, the chief medical officer said on Tuesday.
The number of new cases recorded has fallen by 21 percent since last week, Cecília Müller told an online press briefing of the operative board responsible for handling the pandemic. The average age of the patients is 45 years, she said.
More than 4,326,000 people have registered for a vaccine, and 69 percent of them have already received their first dose, Müller said. Fully 33.4 percent of the Hungarian population has been vaccinated, compared with the European Union average of 18.5 percent, she said.