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Video: Budapest Becomes 'Ghost Town' Due To Coronavirus

• 26 Mar 2020 8:34 AM

Here's a quick vid made by Botond Nahimi of a "lonely walk on the deserted streets of Budapest", during the first days of the Covid -19 state of emergency in Hungary.

Website 444.hu asked Botond when he made the video, he answered that it was all taken on the same day, between 6 and 11am.

His route took him to Kossuth square, the Basilica, Deák square, Keleti station, the National Museum, the 'Whale', Váci utca, Vörösmarty, Fashion street, Heroes’ Square and Buda Castle.

“The funny thing is, in only one or two places did I need to wait a bit or find a sneakier angle, there really was a huge emptiness everywhere,' he is reported as saying.

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