Off-limit hospitals ‘put lives at risk’ in Hungary
Reporters claim they have been blocked from hospitals and barred from speaking to medics
31 March 2021 - 16:19
Budapest — Hungarian journalists accused the government on Wednesday of putting lives at risk by barring the media from covering the full extent of what is now the world’s deadliest Covid-19 outbreak.
In an open letter published by most of the country’s independent news outlets, reporters said they had been blocked from hospitals and barred from speaking to medics, making it impossible to alert the public to the crisis. ..
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