Registered party facilities will have one week to reorganize their work, cancel or postpone their wedding appointments. To this end, the restrictions which the Government approved last night, will enter into force on August 16 to completely ban the organization of weddings and other mass gatherings indoors.
“There are two issues here. First, the polls show that we have a problem where the measures are not respected. We still have protocols for those closed places which clearly do not seem to be respected and that is why we came to this problem. And secondly, however, people have planned different events and we think that a week is a reasonable period if they have to cancel them, to postpone the events so that they have time to organize them “- declared Venko Filipce, Minister of Health.
Filipce considers that the adoption of measures is not delayed, although some experts consider that if the country had adopted measures a month earlier, the increase in the number of infected people would not have been so high.
It is by no means too late to impose measures. We are proposing all the measures in time. These are issues that we anticipated a few months ago that we will take action and wait for the right moment. Now that the evident increase in cases has started, which is from last week, the number of hospitalized patients has also increased. “I think it is a good period when we proposed the measures, now that months are coming before us where people stay more indoors – said Venko Filipce, Minister of Health.”
From August 16 in all facilities, including hotels and cultural sports events, parties, concerts, seminars, trainings, workshops and conferences where there are more than 30 people, citizens over the age of 18 must have a vaccination certificate , at least for the first dose. In the interior spaces of gastronomic facilities there should be no filling of more than 30% of the capacities while in a table should not sit more than 4 people.
The measures come after the country recorded a rapid increase in daily cases, as well as the number of active cases which from about 130 became about 2000. The city of Tetovo remains the most critical where there are currently 572 active cases and over 45 hospitalized. As of today, the Clinic for Infectious Diseases in Skopje has prepared additional spaces for the admission of patients from Tetovo. The total number of patients in the whole country is about 150. Among 10% of them are patients vaccinated with two doses whose condition is relatively stable and out of danger for life.
