JOINT AGREEMENT FOR PROCUREMENT -The Government of the Republic of North Macedonia at today’s session reviewed and passed the Information on the need of signing a joint agreement for procurement of medicines and medical equipment between the Republic of North Macedonia and the European Commission, and charged and authorized the Minister of Health to sign and to accordingly implement the .joint agreement for procurement of medicines and medical equipment between the Republic of North Macedonia and the European Commission.
PRIVATE SECTOR – The Government today adopted an amendment to the decree on support of private sector employers affected by the health-economic crisis for the payment of salaries for April and May 2020, and with these changes the third condition is removed in that managers and business owners employed in them cannot use the measure (in the direction of protecting micro and small companies), and is supplemented with the condition that the number of employees should be kept 2 months after using the measure, that is, until July 2020.
QUARENTINE – The Ministry of Interior announced that persons who are in state quarantine and who during the weekend are to leave, need to give police officers the name and last name of the person who will be picking them up, as well as information on that person’s vehicle.
APPLICATION – The application “StopCorona!” is completed and has nothing to do with personal information. Everyone who will download the application will be given a new application number (code), which has nothing to do with us, our date of birth, mobile phone, or identification number.
GOOD NEWS – According to data from the Ministry of Health, today is the sixth day in a row in Debar without newly diagnosed COVID-19 cases.
PREPARATIONS – “In the coming period, next week we are starting intensive communication with representatives of the Chambers of Commerce, who on our behalf will be given a clear guideline on how economic operators, production capacities, restaurants need to organize their work process for when it will be decided that the time has come to lift all the restrictive strict measures, for that entire process to gradually return to normal”, stated Minister of Health, Dr Flipce.
ACCREDITATIONS – Upon the proposal of the Ministry of Economy, the ministers at today’s 39th government session reviewed and passed the Decree on application of the Law on accreditations during a state of emergency, which anticipates postponement of the deadlines for submitting the report on the realized work programme of the Institute for Accreditation of the Republic of North Macedonia for 2019, as well as the report on the work of the Council for 2019 and the report of the Material and Financial Supervision Board for 2019, during the duration of the state of emergency.
MOI – “The Ministry of Interior with all of its members is absolutely ready to respond to all the tasks during the curfew ahead of us this weekend”, stated the Additional Minister of Interior, Slavjanka Petrovska.
“So far, we are in communication with the Public Prosecutor’s Office, we will decide together for criminal charges, but I emphasize that calling on or expressing revolt against the measures that the Government is taking in the interest of the citizens is inappropriate, especially since this is not only a fight of the Government or society, but a fight of the entire world. I think that this disregarding of measures is disregarding of ourselves and of everyone around us. I hope that the Head, as Head of a religious community, will reconsider his position”, said Petrovska.
Diana Tahiri in cooperation with Biljana Jordanovska
Translation: N. Cvetkovska
