Reopening restaurants and beaches depends on citizens’ behavior, health minister says
Health Minister Nelu Tătaru said last night, in an interview, that in the context of a descending number of new cases of coronavirus and deaths, the effects of the three days of relaxation following the end of the state of emergency will be visible starting this Thursday.
Nelu Tătaru: We will see if this exaggerated joy or exaggerated sensation of freedom will have effects. Think about it, a mass of people, each of them coming from their family, their environment in which they had a disease or not, can transmit it to the people they meet there and those ones will go back to their families. We will see the appearance of mini-outbreaks.
The Romanian Health Minister also spoke of the situation at the border
Nelu Tătaru: O lack of distancing, a relatively large group of people crowding to enter the country created the conditions of a possible transmission. Let’s not forget that these country fellows of ours were coming from former red zones.
The Health Minister warned again that the reopening of gardens on the 1st of June or of the beaches and restaurants at the middle of next month depends on the behavior people have during this period. This will be a trial summer – the Health Minister said in a televised interview for Digi 24.
Romanian medical staff in the context of coronavirus
The number of people who lost their lives in Romania, because of the coronavirus, has risen to 1 120, after 13 new deaths recorded yesterday. Other 165 new cases have also been confirmed, taking the total number of cases to more than 17 000. Many of those are medical staff.
At the Municipal Hospital in Rădăuţi, 28 of the medical staff have been confirmed with COVID-19. They are doctors, nurses, caregivers and stretcher bearers, most of them working in the ICU and Surgery departments. Also, a nurse in the Emergency Hospital in Botoşani has been diagnosed with COVID-19 for the second time. Representatives of the Public Health Direction say that it is not a second infection but a reinternment of the disease, as the nurse din no develop antibodies. In Romania, one of seven cases of coronavirus is part of the medical personnel – according to the latest report of the National Center of Surveillance and Transmissible Diseases linked to COVID-19. In the document it is stated that more than three quarters of deaths are recorded in people over 60, especially men. Almost 90% of the dead suffered of other diseases and 44% of deaths have been recorded in Suceava, Bacău, Timiş, Galaţi and Bucharest. Raed Arafat, who is Head of the Department of Emergency Situations at Ministry of Internal Affairs, warned again yesterday that the population needs to learn to live with this virus and not to go back to the old way of living, for the moment, as there is a high risk of the number of cases rising again.
One of the Romanians who became reinfected with the new coronavirus was the first to donate plasma in Buzău
One of the Romanians who became reinfected with the new coronavirus and then recovered was the first person to donate plasma in Buzău. The day after he was declared healthy, the man went to the Blood Transfusion Center. The plasma he donated will be certificated on Tuesday, afterwards it will be stored and used to treat patients who are seriously ill with COVID-19.
