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Alexandru Rafila, a member of the WHO Executive Committee, told Digi24 on Tuesday night that “only time” will show whether the new restrictive measures will take effect. He said that at the moment it is not possible to say exactly whether it is necessary to postpone the parliamentary elections, because not enough time has passed since the local elections.
“Only time will tell and we will see in a week or two if this increase stabilizes and eventually the number of cases begins to decline.” That will be the moment of truth, we must see the effect of the measures in real life, “said Alexandru Rafila, about the new restrictions to prevent the spread of the disease.
Regarding the WHO warning, he said that “the relaxation of the people is not resolved.” “We need to understand that people also have a tolerance limit. You cannot tolerate a measure that changes your daily life indefinitely. Rather, conviction and collaboration with people is what can solve a problem,” he added.
The professor specified that the use of masks in open spaces will be done if people understand the danger and want to do it: “You cannot make someone follow the population, to see who wears a mask and who does not. There must be the collaboration of the population and the specialists of the Strategic Communication Group, they should probably work more intensely in the area of communication and explanation ”.
Alexandru Rafila specified that he cannot link this increase in elections, because “we had 2,000 cases a day in the first days after the elections, so it was not a direct effect. (…) Let’s wait and see what happens this week and we could have a conclusion closer to the truth ”.
The specialist could not comment on the postponement of the parliamentary elections: “Let us wait a few more days until two weeks have passed from the date the municipal elections were held.”
On the “catastrophic scenario” of 4,000 new cases per day, Alexandru Rafila responded that “the catastrophic scenario is one in which the number of cases per day blocks the health system, access to health services, access to intensive care units and mortality increases ”.
“It just came to our attention then. If we are talking about 4,000, 3,000 or 4,500, this is a different kind of discussion, but that is the moment, the moment when the health system can no longer take care of all the people who need it. be hospitalized and treated, especially in intensive care areas. You have no way of knowing exactly how long it will stop, it depends on who gets sick. If we don’t protect patients from vulnerable categories, the system will crash, “said the representative. Romania in the WHO.
