{"id":1364335,"date":"2022-03-08T09:41:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T14:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1364335"},"modified":"2022-03-08T09:41:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T14:41:26","slug":"hungary-is-latest-eu-nation-to-end-coronavirus-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hungary-is-latest-eu-nation-to-end-coronavirus-lockdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary is Latest EU Nation to End Coronavirus Lockdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhungary-is-latest-eu-nation-to-end-coronavirus-lockdowns%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1364335&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">As of Monday, the Hungarian government has lifted nearly all of its Wuhan coronavirus restrictions, with mask mandates now limited to only hospitals and retirement homes.<\/p>\n<p>The government of Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n ended mask mandates for indoor public spaces and on public transport on Monday and has also scrapped capacity limits on events that previously required proof of vaccination or a negative test for the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>While masks are now no longer mandatory in most areas, they will still be required for those visiting Hungarian hospitals or care homes, <em>Kronen Zeitung<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.krone.at\/2647468\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Hungarian government had previously ended health passport restrictions last summer for indoor dining and other events but had limited events with more than 500 people to those who could present proof of being fully vaccinated or show a negative test for the virus.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hungarian Government Lifts State of Emergency over Coronavirus Pandemic <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9HBYa2UNm6\">https:\/\/t.co\/9HBYa2UNm6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1273185716990861312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to the newspaper, 63 per cent of Hungarians are believed to be fully vaccinated, and the country has seen a total of <a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.who.int\/region\/euro\/country\/hu\">44,436 deaths<\/a> throughout the entire pandemic according to statistics from the World Health Organisation (WHO).<\/p>\n<p>During the early days of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic in the spring of 2020, many western European politicians slammed Hungary for announcing a state of emergency to deal with the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCritics have claimed that the Orb\u00e1n government was exploiting the coronavirus crisis to impose a dictatorship where parliament was suspended and the Prime Minister would rule by decree indefinitely,\u201d a Hungarian government spokesman told Breitbart London in May of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Just a month later in June, Prime Minister Orb\u00e1n and the Hungarian parliament lifted the state of emergency and announced it had gone through the first wave of the pandemic. Despite seeing more pandemic waves, the government did not reinstate the state of emergency.<\/p>\n<p>Other countries, such as Italy, meanwhile are still in long-term states of emergency relating to the pandemic. Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi announced just two weeks ago that Italy would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/italy-will-exit-covid-state-emergency-end-march-draghi-says-2022-02-23\/\">not be extending<\/a> the country\u2019s state of emergency at the end of March. The state of emergency was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/italy-declares-state-of-emergency-over-coronavirus\/\">originally enacted<\/a> in January of 2020.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Swedish government is set to repeal its Pandemic Act by the end of the month and, starting in April, the country will no longer classify the Wuhan virus a &#8220;generally and socially dangerous&#8221; disease <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WX1AFoEGlB\">https:\/\/t.co\/WX1AFoEGlB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1500087480502026241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><em><strong><span class=\"a-size-large\">Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at\u00a0<span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomlinsonCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@TomlinsonCJ<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>or email at\u00a0ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of Monday, the Hungarian government has lifted nearly all of its Wuhan coronavirus restrictions, with mask mandates now limited to only hospitals and retirement homes. 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