Hungary has confirmed its first two cases of the Wuhan coronavirus, spread to the country by a pair of Iranian students.
“Hungary has all the personnel, facilities and regulations in place to handle the situation,” promised Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who had previously predicted that the arrival of coronavirus in his country was inevitable.
“We knew all along that – sooner or later – it would reach Europe because in our modern world it’s not only goods and people, but also viruses that can flow freely,” he said at an emergency meeting of leaders from the Visegrad Group of anti-mass migration, relatively eurosceptic Central European government leaders in Prague, Czechia.
“We have identified two types of threats: One concerns public health and the other has to do with the economy,” he continued.