The Ministry of Foreign Affairs signed unfavorable terms in a series of pricy contracts. What did hospitals do with Chinese ventilators?
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“Seller shall not undertake maintenance” – hospitals struggled with smoking, incompatible Chinese ventilators
PM Orbán tried to prevent hospital dramas with vaccination. In the end, he could only hide them
Despite flaws in February, how did the Hungarian government manage to present its epidemiological measures as a success in the eyes of the public? Here is the background story of Hungary’s third COVID-19 wave.
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12904. That is my Mom – The untold story of the victims of the coronavirus
Nearly thirty thousand Hungarians died of coronavirus. Who were they? What happened to them from their first symptoms to their death? Article, photo gallery and a documentary film.
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How sloppy coronavirus measures pushed healthcare workers to the brink of death
12 hours in surgical masks, a lack of testing and a string of nurses falling ill. In May, coronavirus tread down a hospital in Western Hungary.
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It started as a simple patient transfer, but then it showed the chaos in the coronavirus fight
In April, elderly patients were transferred between two Hungarian hospitals without testing. Thus, Covid-19 got into another institution.
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China suspended the export of some COVID-19 tests in April. The Hungarian government had already stocked up on them
Hungarian paramedics are still using tests whose exports were suspended in April. This week, China again loosened export requirements, and it seems that the Hungarian government also managed to find a reliable supplier.
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„By now, no one can give even a piece of bread”
For Hungarians living in deep poverty, the world has turned upside down since the coronavirus lockdown. Although poor rural communities have not yet seen a breakout but most jobs are gone and with no savings and barely enough food left, people cannot afford to buy even disinfectants. So far, the government has failed to take action, leaving thousands of starving families without help.
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Hungarian ministerial adviser searched for coronavirus masks. He found them at a company where his father is a senior manager
Tons of medical masks and other personal protective equipment are arriving to Hungary almost every day. One of the big winners of the state orders is a little-known Chinese-Hungarian company with family ties to the ministry that handled the procurements.
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After 15 years of constant reorganization, Hungarian epidemiology was hit hard by coronavirus
Socialist governments crippled the network of state laboratories, Fidesz cut the epidemiologists’ central institution into pieces before trying to reverse the restructuring. Hungarian epidemiology struggles with the pandemic in a weakened state.
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