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Hungarian police: Over 3,000 persons have been ordered to compulsory home quarantine in the past 24 hours
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During the period of disease control preparedness, the police have checked compliance with the rules relating to compulsory home quarantine in more than a million cases so far, the deputy head of the duty centre of the Operational Group responsible for the fight against the coronavirus epidemic said at an online press conference held on Wednesday.
Lt. Colonel Róbert Kiss highlighted that on the previous day the police had carried out 12,719 checks, while since the spring more than 1,071,000.
According to his information, at present, 27,449 persons are in compulsory home quarantine, while in the past 24 hours 3,280 persons have been ordered to retire to compulsory home quarantine, including 644 upon crossing the border.
Mr Kiss said
at present, 1,815 persons are using the mobile phone application for the verification of compliance with the quarantine regulations.
In the past 24 hours, the police have taken action in 32 instances against violators of the more stringent rules introduced on Monday. The police were required to take action in five instances on public transport, while in another 27 instances in stores and other places.
The police officer drew attention to the fact that, according to the regulation, everyone over the age of 6 is required to wear face masks on public transport, at public transport stops, in shops, shopping centres, not including offices, catering establishments and sports facilities on the premises of shopping centres, theatres, cinemas, performance and artistic venues, museums, libraries, archives, public education, health care and social institutions as well as on customer service premises.