Hungary partial lockdown to stay in place until March 15

The government will maintain the current restrictions introduced due to the coronavirus pandemic until March 15, the head of the Prime Minister's Office told a weekly press briefing on Thursday. Gergely Gulyas said that the third wave of the pandemic had hit Hungary and numbers could "worsen dramatically" in the coming weeks. "The next two weeks will be particularly difficult," he added. There are a number of new variants present in the country, spreading faster than earlier ones, Gulyas said, but added that the vaccines currently available provided protection against each of them.