TIRANA – After a six-week confinement Albanian pensioners will be allowed to leave their homes for a limited period of time on Saturday, said Premier Edi Rama on Friday.
“As everything will be closed tomorrow pensioners can go out not on visits, neither to play domino or in dangerous gathering, but just to take fresh air and stroll,” said Rama. According to him, they can stay out until 11 am and anyone can be accompanied by another pensioner, who, of course, should keep the security distancing.
Earlier the government decided to restrict movements during the upcoming weekend which coincides with the Orthodox Easter by imposing an extended weekend curfew from 5.30 pm on Friday to 5 am on Monday.
After PM’s announcement the State Police explained in a statement that they will welcome and assist pensioners to respect the social distancing. This means that they cannot be more than two persons together and after 11 am they should return home.
“All other people should respect the restrictions not to leave the homes until 5 am on Monday with the exception of medical emergencies,” said police.
It will be the first time that the streets and roads of Tirana and other cities of Albania will be the ‘kingdom’ of elderly people in the circumstances of the deadly COVID-19 epidemic which has knelt down Albania since its formal outbreak on 8 March this year. /argumentum.al
