Orban: Govt focuses on four aspects of epidemic response

The government has organised its response to the new coronavirus outbreak along the policing, military, health-care and economic aspects of combatting the epidemic, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Monday. "We will have to succeed on four battlefields simultaneously," Orban said at an online press conference of the operative board responsible for coordinating efforts handling the epidemic, which, he said "growing by leaps and bounds" and nearing the stage of mass infections. Orban notted that the number of confirmed cases had risen to 167 by Monday morning.There are only estimates of the number of people who have actually contracted the virus, Orban said. It is "certainly" much higher than the confirmed 167, he said.