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The Serbian government has prescribed new measures to curb the spread of coronavirus, which will take effect on Tuesday. According to that, many changes await us in daily life, and as the authorities say, we will have to strictly respect each of the measures.
Most of the measures have been implemented, while for some there are doubts, so it is not entirely clear how exactly they will be implemented, and these are all the details of the bans that await us as of Tuesday:
1. Shorter working hours
Reduction of the working day until 18:00 for restaurants, cafes, bars, clubs, bookmakers and shopping centers: this is exactly the new measure that will take effect on Tuesday.
So again, the changes will be first undergone by the catering service providers and all those engaged in similar activities. In addition to the additionally shortened working day, what certainly remains in force concerns the mandatory use of the mask indoors, as well as the maintenance of a physical distance of two meters.
In cafes and restaurants, a face without a mask can only be on the table, and in all other circumstances, a mask is mandatory.
We remind you that previously working hours were allowed until 9:00 p.m., and only pharmacies and gas stations were exempt from this measure, which is now not specified.
2. Mandatory protection
The mandatory and unconditional use of personal protective equipment (with protective mask) indoors, as well as outdoors in those situations where interpersonal contacts cannot be avoided, is another new measure.
Wearing a protective mask indoors is something that does not change throughout the epidemic, but more and more talk is about outdoor masks.
This was a recommendation that the profession emphasized on a daily basis, and even now it is noted as a mandatory measure that masks are mandatory outdoors in those situations where it is impossible to maintain physical distance.
So if you are waiting in line, you are in a pedestrian zone or any other place where it is impossible to maintain a social distance, a mask is mandatory.
3. Prohibition of assembly
Prohibition of all public meetings with the presence of more than five people, indoors and outdoors. Excluded from this measure are work organizations, schools, businesses, shopping centers and similar facilities, which are subject to the prescribed limit on the number of people present at all times in relation to the area of the facility of at least four square meters per person.
This measure went into effect on November 6, and is still in effect, and Dr. Darija Kisić Tepavčević also spoke about it at the time.
– The prohibition refers to meetings at public events, which refers to celebrations, congresses and seminars. They refer to organized meetings. It does not refer to the school and work environment – he emphasized at the time.
This, therefore, prohibits any organized gathering, which mainly means private celebrations and parties, but also any other presence of more than five people.
4. Work from home
Although little has been said about this before, one of the new measures is to enable work from home to all employees whose work process allows it.
Health Minister Zlatibor Lončar said today, commenting on the new measures, that two reasons are crucial in this case.
– Among the measures is to enable work from home, for two reasons so that people do not make contacts and to ease transportation in the city – he said.
The question remains to what extent it is necessary to apply this measure in certain activities.
This refers mainly to state agencies, companies that have daily contacts with the parties where it is almost impossible to enable work from home.
However, as it is stated that the measure refers to making it possible to work from home for all employees whose work process allows it, certain employees will still have to go to work every day, despite this measure.
5. Greater control in transportation
Strict control of the obligation to wear a protective mask in public transport vehicles, with the limitation of the maximum number of passengers in the vehicle to half the declared capacity of the vehicle: this is exactly what another new measure says.
As the city’s transport is one of the main places of transmission of the virus, the authorities constantly, in addition to wearing a mask, also appealed for control over the implementation of this measure.
Now, the city’s transport will also undergo changes because the number of passengers will be limited and additional vehicles will have to be provided to avoid creating crowds.
– We will increase the city transport so that there are fewer crowds, when the city transport is full to 50 percent of the passengers, it will not stop at the station until the crowd clears – Lončar pointed out today.
Is it unclear how passengers will get out of the vehicle if they don’t stop at the station?
6. And other measures under additional control
In addition to public transportation, control will be strengthened in the case of home isolation, home quarantine or self-isolation, as well as all other anti-epidemic measures in force.
Home isolation is prescribed as an anti-epidemic measure to isolate infected people without symptoms or with symptoms of a disease that does not require hospital treatment.
According to the law, home quarantine is ordered by an infectious disease specialist or other doctor in accordance with the order of the Minister, who informs the epidemiologist of the competent institute, institute of public health or other competent health institution.
The duration of home quarantine is determined during the maximum incubation period for a given infectious disease.
You can read more about quarantine control here.
7. Changes in educational institutions too
School classes could, due to the worsening of the epidemiological situation, undergo certain changes. Several options are being considered, the safest of which is that currently older classes go online and younger classes still go to classrooms.
According to information from “Blic”, the final decision has not yet been made and should definitely be shortened on Monday.
The dilemma remains whether the oldest grades of elementary schools should go online, that is, from the fifth. Under the current idea, high schools and universities would be online.
The youngest from first to fourth would still go to class. The kindergartens are still open.
While all of these models are being considered, currently no one can say with certainty prior to the Crisis Staff decision that the decision will not be postponed.
If the selective transition measure is taken online, it will be limited to 10 or 15 days.
Read more about the changes in educational institutions here.
All measures are limited to a period of 10 days, after which they will be reconsidered in accordance with the evolution of the epidemiological situation.
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