Isolation

The Minister of Health Kiril Ananiev issued four orders in connection with the extension of the emergency epidemic situation from June 15 to June 30 this year.

The fourth order concerns the mandatory isolation and / or hospital treatment in confirmed cases of COVID-19, as well as the quarantine of contact persons.

From June 15, people coming from countries with a coefficient of less than five new cases of COVID-19 in the last 14 days per one million inhabitants will be exempted from quarantine or home isolation when entering Romania, Ionel Danca, head of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, announced on Friday.

The government will issue a decision to approve the resumption of certain activities and more relaxation measures starting with June 15, Prime Minister Ludovic Orban declared on Thursday. "At the meeting of the National Committee for Emergency Situations we have decided to propose for approval by government decision the resumption of certain activities and more relaxation measures.

Ten people from around 7,000 tea producers have tested positive for the coronavirus, as the country has permitted exceptional inter-city travel to tea collectors travelling to the Black Sea province of Rize to collect this year's harvest.

Turkey's hospitals are largely expected to return their normal operations and start to receive regular patients as of June 1 in line with the government's plan to ease some of the measures imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.

Head of the Emergency Situations Department (DSU) Raed Arafat announced on Thursday evening that from May 15, all persons arriving in Romania, regardless of which country, will be ordered home isolation.

What legislative changes were introduced?

British airlines say they have been informed of the government's intention to quarantine anyone who arrives on the island from any country except the Republic of Ireland, for 14 days, BNT reported, citing the BBC.

The measure is expected to take effect in late May. Those who come to the United Kingdom will have to undergo self-isolation in a private home.

At today's extraordinary plenary session, the deputies will consider the changes in the Health Act at first reading, BGNES reported.

Predrag Stojanovic, the union leader at the Yura Corporation factory in Leskovac in southern Serbia, told BIRN that the company has asked dozens of workers to return to their jobs a day after sending them home to self-isolate on Monday because they were in contact with infected colleagues.