At the evening meetings of task forces, members will discuss the health care situation, the monitoring of border crossing points, the status of the procurement of health care supplies and economic measures, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a video message posted on his Facebook account on Thursday evening.

Mr Orbán said the meetings will be long, and will extend well into the night.

After the meetings, in the morning work will continue, the Prime Minister added.

Last Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced that as part of the containment of the coronavirus epidemic, ten task forces would be set up. On Thursday, the Prime Minister set up another one, a so-called voluntary task force headed by government commissioner-Member of Parliament Máriusz Révész.

(MTI)