Orban outlines crisis management plans to lawmakers

Prime Minister Viktor Orban outlined his government's Covid-19 vaccination and economic recovery action plans in an address to lawmakers on Monday. By the end of May, Hungary can have 3.5 million more people vaccinated against Covid-19 than a European Union country of similar size that only uses vaccines procured from the West, Orban said in a speech ahead of the agenda at the first plenary meeting of parliament's spring session. The cabinet has left its protective measures unchanged since November, which has helped Hungary rein in the pandemic, Orban said. Countries that continuously make changes to their response measures, he said, had seen the start of a strong third wave of the pandemic.