TIRANA – Another relaxation package of the restrictions due to the pandemic have been announced by Prime Minister Edi Rama who unveiled on Friday the concrete businesses which will be opened on May 18 amidst warnings for individual responsibility of the citizens.
This further easing of the lockdown will cover the entire territory of Albania, which means red and yellow zones. According to this decision, bars, restaurants, shops and hotels will reopen and children of certain grades will be able to attend classes.
“Besides public transport, indoor areas of bars and restaurants, gyms, sports centers, theaters, cinemas and nightclubs or indoor playgrounds, everything else will be opened,” said Rama in his expected announcement.
Albania went into lockdown on March 9 this year in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19 pandemic.
The decision to further ease the lockdown was taken despite the fact that infection rates increased for the second day in a raw from 4 to 18 in 24 hours.
Earlier on Friday the Health Minister, Ogerta Manastirliu spoke on a cautionary note regarding the relaxation of restrictions leaving everything in citizens’ behavior of living with COVID-19 virus. “If growth of the coronavirus cases continues the schemes of the emergency brakes will be used according to the scenarios,” she warned on Friday displeased with the double digit numbers of the affected people with COVID-19 during the last two days.
Speaking of the negative impact of the easing restrictions Minister Manastirliu said a further relaxation of the scheme depends on the cooperation of the citizens with the institutions. Citizens.
“It holds true that punishments are not the solution but it is similarly true that an entire people cannot be penalized by a minority whose actions can cause immense damage,” she said. “A further increase will force us to undertake immediate steps not to allow a second wave of the pandemic, which would blow up what has been achieved so far,” Manastirliu warned. /argumentum.al
