Hungary PM Office Head calls for 'quickness, ability to respond'

Fighting the coronavirus epidemic requires "quickness and an ability to respond", which justifies the government's reintroduction of a special legal order, the head of the Prime Minister's Office told a press conference following a government meeting on Wednesday. Gergely Gulyas said that the situation was deteriorating globally and especially in Europe, and "Hungary is no exception". He added, however, that Hungary was 10th out of the European Union's 27 member states in terms of the number of infections, while Hungary's mortality rate was "about half of the EU average".