Such private events as wedding parties, christening ceremonies and commemoration meals will be banned only in settlements placed on COVID-19 red alert, says the National Extraordinary Public Health Commission’s decision that takes effect on February 16, IPN reports.

The activities in recreational areas and amusement parks and scientific conferences with physical attendance will not be permitted under red alert. But the public eating places will be able to return to the normal work regime by admitting a particular number of persons, regardless of the alert level.

The general rule to present the COVID-19 certificate when entering commercial or service areas will no longer be applied. Differentiated COVID-19 protection measures, depending on the alert level issued in each locality according to the incidence rate, will be applied again in the Republic of Moldova as from February 16.

Moldova so far has got over 485,000 cases of COVID-19. The incidence rate the last seven days was 451 cases per 100,000 people, a 40.2% decline compared with the previous week and a 93.6% increase compared with a month before. The presence of the Omicron variant in Moldova was detected in 62% of the samples examined according to the sequencing method.