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By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read MARKAZ, Hungary, March 31 (Reuters) - Standing next to his workbench, Gyula Laszlo drills a pattern of tiny holes into a hollowed-out hen’s egg, inserting a network of metal threads that he then uses tweezers to mount a miniature horseshoe on. The craft he specialises in - and in which he generally does brisk business around Easter - is called egg-shoeing, a Hungarian tradition that dates back to the 19th century, and several horseshoes can decorate a single egg. Once considered the ultimate test of skill for a blacksmith, it is now kept alive by Laszlo and a han...

The terraces of restaurants and bars could reopen on Saturday, after more than 3.5 million people in Hungary have been vaccinated against coronavirus.

In the first and second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, we witnessed the threat it poses to the elderly and those with underlying illnesses. However, during the third Covid wave, many reports about younger and often healthy people who required hospital admission or who even died after contracting the virus have surfaced. After the fast-spreading U.K. variant of the coronavirus appeared in Hungary at the end of February, it began to spread at a devastating pace. On top of the British mutation being more contagious, it has also proven to be more dangerous to young and middle-aged people. Unfo...

A fire broke out in a Covid ward of the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Hatvan, eastern Hungary, early on Sunday, but caused no injuries, the hospital’s communications director told MTI. Krisztina Zelnik said a 28-bed, non-intensive care unit ward was evacuated. The building is being aired out and damages repaired, she said, adding that the fire would not cause any protracted disruption of patient care or the operation of the hospital. Disaster management officials earlier said the fire broke out in a ward on the first storey of one of the hospital wings, and staff evacuated three wards. Hung...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary has emerged as a European Union leader in COVID-19 vaccinations thanks to a strategy that sought shots from Russia and China as well as from inside the bloc, spurring increasing trust in jabs from eastern nations. But that strategy is up against a skyrocketing rise in new COVID-19 cases and deaths blamed on a more infectious virus variant first found in Britain that is putting an unprecedented strain on Hungary's health care system. A new round of lockdown measures took effect Monday to curb the surge, which saw deaths averaging around 150 per day and hospi...