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În Romania, five new cases of infection with novel coronavirus
The Strategic Communication Group announces five more cases of infection with the novel coronavirus in Romania, the total number of infections nationwide reaching thus 44.
The persons are five men, of 22, 30, 34, 36 and 57, who came from Italy on March 9 and were immediately placed in quarantine in Arad, says the same source.
The persons who don't respect self-isolation at home will receive a fine worth 4,000 euro, and the fine can be enforced several time if it is established that the measure is repeatedly breached, head of the Emergency Management Department (DSU) Raed Arafat said on Wednesday.
"It was a talk about fines. The fine in euro currency is 4,000 euro. This fine, if the rule is breached several times, the person goes out and is caught several times, can be amerced several times, if necessary. In Hunedoara there were two fines issued for two persons who said they came from Italy, from the non-risk area and after verifications it was established that they came from the area affected and placed in quarantine. In Calarasi, two persons said upon entering the country that they will enter self-isolation at home, but, so far, they didn't arrive at the indicated place," Arafat told a news conference at the Interior Ministry (MAI) headquarters.
He mentioned that there was a similar case in Suceava, however, the Border Police follows all the flights and can be informed regarding the origin of any persons' flight, whether we are talking about Italy or other area under quarantine.
Medics help the epidemiological triage at the checkpoints of the southern, western and northwestern border, the Ministry of National Defence announced on Wednesday.
According to a press release, Defence Minister Nicolae Ciuca on Tuesday approved the request in this sense coming from the Department for Emergency Situations (DSU).
Thus, teams of medics and sanitary personnel performed, starting from Tuesday night to Wednesday, the epidemiological triage together with the teams of specialists from the local public health departments at the border checkpoints in Bors, Calafat, Moravita, Iron Gates 1 and Iron Gates 2.