Orban: 'Hope for the best, prepare for the worst'

"Hope for the best and prepare for the worst," Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in connection with the novel coronavirus epidemic in a public radio interview on Friday. Orban told Kossuth Radio the time had not yet come when it was possible to relax restrictions. The prime minister said it wanted people's lives to return to normal but he dare not tell them to relax. Looking to Austria, he added, if some restrictions are lifted there without a corresponding increase in infections, then Hungary will also consider easing some of them. "Let's be glad that for once, we're not the guinea pigs," he added.