All the economic activities will be resumed by June 30, Prime Minister Ion Chicu has said, being quoted by IPN. In a posting on Facebook, he noted that the authorities had to relax a number of economic activities after May 15. “If particular irresponsible politicians hadn’t blocked about 4.2 billion lei of the Russian loan without a plausible reason, for exclusively geopolitical reasons, we would have identified possibilities for maintaining the quarantine for a longer period,” wrote the official.

According to Premier Chicu, if the economic activities are not gradually resumed, the country risks facing a financial and budgetary collapse. If the people remain without salaries and pensions, the effects will be cumulative and much more serious, including on the people’s health.

“We followed strictly all the recommendations of the WHO since the end of January 2020, when the organization declared a global health emergency. I’m sure that namely this approach enabled us to have one of the lowest rates of deaths from COVID1-19 in Europe and to rank 20th out of 48 countries on the continent by the number of cases of death per 1 million people,” said Ion Chicu.