Hungary announces new lockdown measures to curb Covid spread

Hungary will close almost all shops and services for two weeks along with kindergartens and primary schools for the next month in an effort to tackle the third wave of coronavirus infections, the prime minister's chief of staff announced on Thursday. Shops, with the exception of food stores, pharmacies and petrol stations, will have to be closed and services, with the exception of private health care, suspended between March 8 and 22, Gergely Gulyas told a weekly press briefing. Kindergartens and primary schools will be closed from March 8 until April 7, he said.