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Prime Minister Ludovic Orban said on Tuesday that more than 900 COVID-19 patients had requested discharge and more than 3,000 people diagnosed with the same illness could not be hospitalised after the Constitutional Court ruled against the law on measures to prevent and combat the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, adding that the two weeks of legislative vacuum could have "extremely negative" effects.
He added that, with the entry into force of the quarantine and isolation law, the Executive has "again at its disposal the tools that any government in any democratic country has at its disposal to enable them to fight the pandemic effectively."
"The law regulates specific measures in the event of epidemics, infectious diseases and we have the right to take measures to protect public health - measures of isolation, quarantine, treatment of patients in hospitals or in an organised setting under medical supervision," the prime minister explained.
Head of the Emergency Management Department (DSU) Raed Arafat presented a decision of the National Committee on Emergency Management amending government decision regarding the extension of the state of alert after the entry into force of the quarantine and isolation law.
