Moldovan PM chairs meeting of Single Command Centre for managing emergency state

Chisinau, 3 April /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Ion Chicu today chaired a meeting of the Single Command Centre for the management of the emergency state, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported. 

Interior Minister Pavel Voicu informed that the Interior Ministry (MAI) had called up about 9,000 employees from all structures to carry out activities of maintaining public order, verify people under supervision and to ensure missions of settlement’s quarantine.   

Policemen verified 5,632 people under supervision. Residents more and more intensely inform the police about cases of infringement of the self-isolation regime. Forty six persons who had infringed the isolation regime and five economic agents who had ignored the restrictions imposed by the Commission for Emergency Situations (CSE) were identified.

As many 1,972 people have entered Moldova in the last 24 hours, of whom 222 entered through the Chisinau International Airport.

Defence Minister Alexandru Pinzari said that 100 servicemen were involved in the arrangement of the COVID-19 sorting centre, which is practically prepared for carrying out medical procedures. The processes of testing the equipment of warming and ventilating spaces will be carried out in the next hours.

Health, Labour and Social Protection Ministry Viorica Dumbraveanu said that, in the last 24 hours, 419 samples had been investigated and 86 cases of infection with the new coronavirus were confirmed. Seven cases of them are of import and 79 – of local transmission.  

Most confirmed cases were in the Chisinau city - 33, Stefan Voda district – 26 and Falesti – 4. Four infection cases were confirmed on the left bank of Dniester. Seventeen of the confirmed cases are medical employees, of whom seven are from the Stefan Voda district hospital.   

So far, 591 cases of infection have been detected, after the investigation of 3,376 samples.

The members of the Single Command Centre considered ways of carrying out a more thorough verification of the health condition of the people who come to Moldova, so that the probability of the infection’s local transmission is reduced.