Prefect of Bucharest, urgently assessed after COVID-19 report caught him buying – Essential

The prefect of Bucharest, Gheorghe Cojanu, is being evaluated by the prime minister, not excluding his change of position, after he declared that he did not know the official data on coronavirus infections in the Capital because he was buying and had not received them by mail electronic.

“I didn’t have the number of diseases, I was shopping. Colonel Precup from ISU notified me that it is 3.02 and that we have to meet in the prefecture. I introduced myself. His colleague said there are more than 500 infections. He didn’t have this information, all he knew was the total number of infections in the last 14 days. At the time I was informed, I had not received the newsletter. It is sent to us by official email, “said Cojanu, in an intervention on Digi 24, specifying that it is within the legal deadline to convene the Municipal Committee of Bucharest for emergency situations, for which it decides the measures when the infection rate exceeds 3 boxes per thousand.

The president of the PNL, Prime Minister Ludovic Orban, affirmed this Monday that he did not follow the latest statements by the capital’s prefect, Gheorghe Cojanu, about the rate of infections with the new coronavirus, but specified that the Government carries out a periodic evaluation of the activity of every prefect.

“The Prefect of the Capital convened the Committee for Emergency Situations at the level of the Municipality of Bucharest for today, at 3:00 p.m., and it is important that this Committee for Emergency Situations has all the measures and the implementation plan for the measures that are established in the law and in (…) We did not follow up on the declarations, but we make an assessment of the activity of each prefect. (…) We make an assessment, when we have a decision to communicate, we will communicate it. Orban said.

He argued that the 48-hour period in which the Emergency Situations Committee meets in case of exceeding the incidence rate is rational.

“I don’t know what statements were made. I contacted the prefect and the prefect informed me that he summoned me for today, at 3:00 pm, that is, not in 48 hours, but in 27 hours,” Orban said. However, the prime minister stressed that “the prefect must be informed about the evolution of all activities, of all the institutions involved.” “We regularly evaluate the work of the prefects and make decisions accordingly,” Orban said.