Decision No 39 of National Extraordinary Public Health Commission from 21 December 2020

Chisinau, 21 December /MOLDPRES/ -Under the Article 58 from the Law No 10/2009 on the state supervision of the public health sector (Official Journal, 2009, No 67, Article 183), with the subsequent amendments, as a result of the analysis of the evolution of the epidemiological situation nationally and internationally, the National Extraordinary Public Health Commission (CNESP) finds out that the epidemiological situation remains unfriendly. At the same time, according to data by the public health authorities from the United Kingdom, confirmed also by the World Health Organization (WHO), a new strain of the SARS CoV2 virus was identified. Proceeding from the aforementioned facts and, in order to prevent the spread of the new COVID strain, identified in the UK,

DECIDES:

1. The Civil Aviation Authority will ensure:

1.1. The ceasing of all regular passenger flights and of regular charter flights with the United Kingdom as of 23 December 2020, at 00:00.   

1.2. Ban for air operators to take onboard passengers, who come to Moldova with stopover, from the United Kingdom, starting from 23 December 2020, at 00:00.  

2. The General Inspectorate of Border Police is asked to boost, at the border crossing points, the measures of public health for the prevention and control of the COVID-19 infection.  

3. The public order sector authorities are asked to intensify the supervision of the observance by private people and legal entities of the measures of prevention and control of the COVID-19 infection, especially of the regime of people’s self-isolation.  

4. The decisions of the National Extraordinary Public Health Commission are executory for the central and local public administration authorities, for private people and legal entities, no matter the activity sector and the legal form of organization.  

5. CNESP recommends that media representatives inform the public about the need to strictly observe the measures of prevention and control of the COVID-19 infection.

6. The non-observance of the public health measures, set forth in the present Decision, represents danger for the public health and will serve as reason for calling the guilty people to contravention/criminal account. 

7. The present decision enters into force starting the moment of its issuance and is published on the Government’s official webpage.

Prime Minister, chairman of the Commission Ion Chicu

Health, Labour and Social Protection Minister, deputy chairwoman of the Commission Viorica Dumbraveanu

Secretary of the Commission, acting director of the National Public Health Agency Vasile Gustiuc