Orban: Further restrictions needed to defend against pandemic

Because the import of the novel coronavirus from abroad remains the biggest threat facing Hungary, the government will need to enact further restrictive measures, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday. Compared with Hungary, the status of the epidemic is worsening in most countries, Orban said in his weekly interview with public broadcaster Kossuth Radio, adding that his earlier remark that the biggest threat facing Hungary is the import of the virus from abroad was now "even more valid than before". The prime minister said the epidemic response measures imposed in the spring had saved tens of thousands of lives. "So we have some knowledge about how to defend against the virus and it's primarily this experience that we'll have to build on in the autumn," he said.