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Health Minister Nelu Tataru said on Tuesday that Romania is still headed for the peak of the coronavirus pandemic and expects the number of new cases to decrease "from one day to the next" for the next two weeks.
He said that there are a few days off, May 1 for instance, and the time must be very well managed to prevent new outbreaks.
"We are at a time when that slope is smooth, but then three days come, May 1, 2 and 3, after a period in which the world feels the need for relaxation, and so the moment must be managed very well. We have been under lockdown, even on Easter, and the public obeyed that, for which I want to thank them. But there was also a relatively small part of the public that did not comply, that did not follow social distancing, that broke voluntary isolation at home; disregarding one rule of everything that means emergencies can lead to an outbreak in the community or exacerbate an outbreak that we thought extinct or controlled at the time," said Tataru.
He added that he hopes that for the next two weeks the number of new cases and deaths will decrease and that after the May 15 it will be possible to get to easing the lockdown.
"We hope that for the next two weeks we will see from one day to the next a decrease in the number of new cases, a decrease in deaths, a decrease in the number of intensive care cases, those that are problematic and we can hope that after May 15, when the state of emergency extended by decree by President Klaus Iohannis expires, to think of a relaxation, but until then I am not talking about relaxation, I am talking about the same precautions, the same recommendations, the same isolation and social distancing," said Tataru.
