Involving Hungarian companies, a survey was conducted by the Hungarian Chamber of Industry and Commerce (HCIC) to find out about the economic impacts of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In this article, HCIC's Institute for Economic and Enterprise Research analyses the answers to the survey concerning the major problems of businesses. The survey was conducted between 19 and 31 March 2020. The online questionnaire was filled in by 5268 company representatives, and 4383 gave an answer to the open question: „What poses the most serious problem to the operation of your business now?”. The analysis focuses the opinions formulated by this latter group.