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2020 is an atypical year, in which all the important activities unfolded differently, and the local elections on September 27 are also in the same pattern, says the Health Minister. In an exclusive interview for Digi24, Nelu Tătaru spoke about the special measures taken for this election and how he sees the evolution of the pandemic in the coming month.
Journalist: What do people need to do? There will be no ordinary elections.
Nelu Tătaru: It is not just any year. I’ve been saying it since March. We did not have the same Easter holidays, May 1, Pentecost, the same high school assessment or exam, the same school year, the same holidays, although some tried to do the same as in previous years.
We have a totally different September from the other years, a totally different start to the school year, and totally different elections, as was a different electoral campaign. The main precautions remain: wear the mask, distance yourself, disinfect at the entrance to the voting table, distance yourself from the voting tables, the shortest possible way to the voting booth and to the ballot boxes where the ballots are deposited. Likewise, the existence of people with respiratory symptoms or fever, the shortest path to an urn or urn that will then be dedicated to those who present respiratory symptoms or fever, prioritizing these patients and prioritizing voters over 65 years of age.
Queues form in front of the sections. What rules must be followed?
Distance and with the mask, I avoid touching myself. There are rules that are not just for voting, but for any crowded area.
The Ministry of Health bought disinfectants and masks. Was the purchase complete?
The acquisition is complete, they have reached the prefectures, they also reach the polling stations. The gloves contract was also signed yesterday. No bidder had come to the first 2 auctions, yesterday he came and today we also delivered the gloves in all sections.
How much disinfectant and how many masks?
Masks: 5.3 million, gloves about 11.2 million. We have hand sanitizer, surface, concentrated or diluted, 38-40 thousand liters.
What about the stamp?
The person who enters is disinfected. When disinfecting, you can use the seal. It is also disinfected at the exit of the section.
How will patients vote in COVID hospitals?
COVID hospital patients will benefit from mobile polls. That urn goes first to home applicants with non-COVID pathologies. Then they will arrive at the quarantines, during the 2nd isolation, with a mask, gloves, and in the COVID hospitals they will go to the COVID patient rooms, receiving protective equipment from the health units according to the specificities of the room.
Do they have to wear overalls?
If it is intensive care, they will carry infectious diseases. If there are other sections, they will go only with the regulations in those sections: gloves, mask.
What about the reports of COVID patients?
They will be placed in special bags for protection, they will be placed in other bags. People who will wear gloves and a mask will be counted separately at night.
And for the other ballots?
The mask remains, the gloves remain, because we are inside. But in the part of these newsletters there are only dedicated people who will go, not everyone in the section will count those newsletters.
What do you expect after the elections? Are you afraid that people will not follow the rules?
I hope to stay on that plateau register, so that in the second half of October we can go downhill, prepare for the cold season, the flu season, so that we can get vaccinated. It is an atypical year, this year we are heading towards an almost normal life. We are in a pandemic that is expected to last a year and a half, two. We must learn to live with this virus, to live with certain precautions, certain rules and to maintain a somewhat healthy state.
