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After a weekend of increased restrictions, but also protests in 24 cities, the rulers are considering reconsidering measures to prevent disease.
“I understand the Romanians that after a year they got tired. We were all tired,” Prime Minister Florin Cîțu said after a meeting with his fellow party members. The meeting was also attended by Secretary of State Raed Arafat, whose politicians asked to leave the stores open after 6 pm For now, the infection rate is increasing in the capital, but also in 32 counties.
Prime Minister Florin Cîțu went to a meeting with Secretary of State Raed Arafat. He explained to the liberals why the preventive measures taken over the weekend are necessary and presented them with a list of countries where the restrictions are much tougher.
Raed Arafat, Secretary of State for the Interior Ministry: “From the day before yesterday until yesterday, increases of 0.01 by 0.02 were recorded in 32 counties, plus Bucharest. So this warns us that the situation is not stable. To understand, there are many countries that have a reduced schedule in which people can return home, some at 7 p.m., others at 18. The difference between them and us is that there, once the measure is taken, it applies to everything the country, in our country it is applied according to the incidence ”.
Unimpressed, the NLP MPs asked Raed Arafat for explanations about the tent program. They proposed to keep at least as many small stores open in the neighborhoods as possible.
Journalist: “Where do you get your bread from every night, since the stores close at 18:00?
Florin Cîțu: “The weekend”.
The prime minister said authorities could discuss the restrictions again, but hinted that they were put in place by health professionals, who had proposed much tougher measures anyway.
Vlad Voiculescu, Minister of Health: “If you talk to other Romanians, who come here for a few days and live in another country, you will see that they are very surprised by the amount of freedom that there is in our country, the few restrictions that exist. In Romania. We have to be careful. “
On the other hand, from Sunday afternoon until late at night, the protests took place in Bucharest and in 24 other cities in the country. In many places, the maximum number of 100 participants was exceeded and no health prevention measures were observed.
Florin Cîțu, Prime Minister: “People can protest as long as they don’t violate current legislation. Everyone must obey the law. I understand the Romanians who, after a year, got tired. We are all tired. “
The value of the fines applied to those who protested without respecting the rules was almost 100,000 lei.
After the information appeared in the public space, the Government transmitted, in a statement, that it does not contemplate, “for the next period”, the relaxation of the restrictions.
“At this time, for the next period, the review / modification of the measures adopted is not considered. We mention that these measures are related to the incidence of each locality through a publicly presented mechanism, and their removal depends on reducing the level of spread of the virus in the locality.
Regarding the perspective of measures that allow the realization of certain types of activities, we observe that no decisions are made in this regard and they do not cover the next period. At the government level, consultations and analysis are carried out on when the rate of spread of the virus at the national level will be significantly reduced and only in this context, in a period of several months, can the conditions be discussed. for certain types of activities ”, is reflected in the government statement.
