Budapest’s Puskas Arena hosted a full capacity crowd of around 61,000 spectators yesterday during Hungary’s match against Portugal for the opening game of Euro 2020’s Group F. Despite Wembley only operating at 25% for last Sunday’s England vs Croatia, with the former emerging victorious, Hungary’s vaccination programme has prompted the national football association to allow full capacity. Hungary, its estimated, has around 5.3 million people out of its total 9.8 million vaccinated prior to Euro 2020’s start on June 11th.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban made use of vaccines from Russia and China to speed up the jab process and was thus able to ease restrictions ahead of the match. Indoor meetings, cinemas, theatres and restaurants are also open in Hungary for those who can prove immunity. International fans had to provide negative PCR test proof within 72 hours of the match.
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