As part of the proposal, a drive to rid eight social care homes in Budapest of cockroaches will move ahead.

More than Ft 243 million was spent on exterminating mosquitoes, cockroaches and rats during 2012-17.

Attila Szécsi, president of the Budapest Condominiums Representatives Association, told Inforádió that while rats were not often seem in the downtown area previously, this is no longer a rare event.

“It is very hard to spot them, as these rodents prefer to hide, but the fact is that rats are here, he said.

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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