President Klaus Iohannis said at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace on Tuesday that the authorities are not considering implementing any lockdown measures for Easter but that the state of alert will be extended as the pandemic figures in the past week are concerning, according to actmedia.eu.
Iohannis said that the state of alert will be extended this week, due to the relatively high number of illness. The restrictions that are in force will be kept, and the movement at night will be restricted an hour earlier. The curfew will start at 22:00hrs instead of 23:00hrs.
„I want to draw the attention that the figures of the past week on the COVID-19 pandemic are concerning. We received messages from all areas that the pressure on the intensive care unit has been increasing,” the President added.
With respect to the vaccination campaign, the President said that over one million people got vaccinated against COVID-19 in Romania and that the number of administered doses have increased.
Over one million Romanians have been vaccinated, the country is expected to receive nearly six million vaccine doses in March-April.
„The number of doses administered has shown an increase on a daily basis and the number of vaccination centres has increased as well,” President Iohannis said.