The National Association of Restaurants and Recreational Facilities of the Republic of Moldova (MĂR) considers it is inopportune to maintain the restrictions concerning the work program (by 10pm) of public eating places and to fully ban festive events. The association made such an approach to the Extraordinary Public Health Commission of Chisinau municipality, asking to lift these restrictions IPN reports.

More exactly, MĂR asks to annul the restriction concerning the work program of public eating places in the municipality of Chisinau, to allow holding festive events with at most 50 persons in public eating places in the municipality of Chisinau and to allow summer terraces in the municipality of Chisinau to work according to last year’s placing schemes, given the absence of new regulators.

The association noted that these restrictions were imposed at the end of last November by the National Extraordinary Public Health Commission when the epidemiological situation in the country was alarming, with over 1,200 daily cases of COVID-19. The number of infections in the municipality of Chisinau has been under 100 a day the past month.

According to MĂR, the losses now represent 80% compared with the corresponding period of 2019, depending on the type of public eating place. The restrictions lead to the loss of jobs by employees. Since the start of the pandemic, the hospitality industry lost about 45% of the employees.