CNSU approves decision of 30-day extension of state of alert as of November 14

The National Committee for Emergency Situations approved a new decision proposing the 30-day extension of the state of alert across Romania, as of November 14, the head of the Department for Emergency Situations, Dr. Raed Arafat, announced on Thursday in the Government meeting.

"Basically, we maintain the previous set of measures, including the set of measures with local applicability according to the spreading incidence and also the national set of measures," Prime Minister Ludovic Orban added at the meeting.

The head of the DSU said that maintaining the recently adopted restrictions for 30 days is necessary to see a "real impact" on their enforcement.

Raed Arafat also specified that the regulations regarding the voting day for the parliamentary elections are included in the draft decision that the Government will adopt, which refers to the extension of the state of alert. "They are in the Government decision," said the head of DSU.

În turn, Prime Minister Ludovic Orban announced that the government will not introduce additional restrictive measures in the new decision on the 30-day extension of the state of alert, specifying that the authorities currently have the tools at hand to stop the rise in the number of COVID-19 cases.

"As concerns the extension of the state of alert, we will not introduce additional restrictive measures. We believe that at this moment we practically have all the tools at our disposal to be able to stop the rise in infection cases," Orban said after a visit to the Transgaz natural gas transmission corporation.

În this context, the National Committee for Emergency Situations (CNSU) has updated the list of high infection risk countries / areas / territories for which travelers to Romania shall be put in quarantine.

The list takes effect on November 13.

The following states are in the yellow zone, for which a 14-day quarantine at home / declared location is required:

* Andorra
* French Polynesia
* the Czech Republic
* Luxembourg
* Belgium
* Switzerland
* Liechtenstein
* Slovenia
* Armenia
* France
* Montenegro
* Austria
* Poland
* Georgia
* Croatia
* the Netherlands
* Italy
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* San Marino
* North Macedonia
* Guam
* Spain
* Portugal
* Slovakia
* Jordan
* Hungary
* Monaco
* Bulgaria
* Lithuania
* Denmark (following the detection of a new SARS-CoV-2 virus in the human population). 

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