“The imposition of restrictions goes beyond the competence and power of the Ministry of Health. We refer to the professional part, which is responsible for ensuring the diagnosis, evaluation, treatment and regular information of the population. We have a daily newsletter with many details. Everyone can understand We continue to constructively encourage people when they are in enclosed, crowded areas, on buses and other means of transportation to try to use the mask, to stay away when they can, and to wash themselves. I don’t think they are restrictions, they are simply elements of individual security. (…)
It is not that someone objected, this state of alert was simply not extended by the decision of the Romanian Government and implicitly all the elements we had at hand disappeared. We continue to rely on responsibility, on information. Maybe we will be more successful, because sometimes the measures that seem coercive are more difficult to apply than those that invite an individual responsibility “, the Minister of Health told România TV.
Alexandru Rafila does not preclude the reintroduction of restrictions
“I do not rule out anything, but given that our proposal to phase out these restrictions may have better controlled the number of cases, and I am not referring to the restrictions themselves, but simply to the use of the mask indoors and public transport, these were practically all the restrictions we were referring to, I think it would have been a good thing, because it would have slowed down the transmission.
We are now again at a rate of infection reproduction around one and will probably exceed this figure by one, so we expect an upward trend. (…) It is important to keep under control, so that this growth does not become worrying “, said Alexandru Rafila.
Omicron is 100% dominant now in Romania. The risk of reinfection is high for both vaccinated and unvaccinated, says researcher Octavian Jurma.
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