INFORMATION The Minister of Health through his FB profile has called on all citizens to join the “Коронавирус МК Koronavirus” Viber community. Link for joining: https://vb.me/mk_gov.
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DECISION The Constitutional Court unanimously adopted the decision for initiating a procedure for assessment of the constitutionality and legality of the Decree with force of law for determining the amount of the salary of elected, appointed and designated persons in the public sector during the state of emergency and for the Decree with which it is supplemented, announced the Court after the Government reacted to its decision.
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CHANGES The National Bank Council at a regular session adopted regulatory changes that enable banks and savings houses with a change to contractual terms to ease the financial burden of loan users whose loan has been approved in the period March 1-24 this year.
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ENVIRONMENT The Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning informs that a Decision has been adopted for selection of programs, projects and activities that will be financed from the Environmental Investment Program for 2020, and that the results have been published in the “Official Gazette of RNM” No. 108 from April 24, 2020.
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MEASURES “The Government led by SDSM cares about everyone, and through a package of various measures for different categories of citizens, by initiating solidarity behaviour in society, we will do everything for the impact of the crisis to be as little as possible”, wrote SDSM President Zoran Zaev today on his Facebook profile.
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STATEMENT The transportation of goods and services has no problems, except for the case until recently with the Republic of Turkey. It was well coordinated both with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Interior in regards to the problems at borders across Europe, said Minister of Transport Goran Sugarevski tonight in an interview for 24 News.
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SESSION The banking system is prepared to cope with the shock from the coronavirus, is said in the Report on risks in the banking system adopted at a regular session of the National Bank. As the central bank announced today, the data and conclusions in the Report confirm that the system is sound and stable and set on solid foundations, as well as that it is ready to cope with different shocks, including also the unfavourable effects of the current health crisis.
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INVESTIGATION New guidelines for operational actions have been received from the prosecutor of the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office for shedding light on the case of the deceased mother and son, and members of the Ministry of Interior are acting upon them, informs the spokesperson from the Veles Sector of Interior, Veroljub Dodevski at today’s press conference. He reminded of the event when on April 6 at 10.30am in Veles a mother and her son were found dead in their apartment, and after the death of the mother it was confirmed that she had died from COVID-19.
А. Petrovska
translation: N. Cvetkovska