According to the new measures in the fight against the coronavirus, the movement ban will be from 9pm to 5am. Intercity traffic is prohibited from Friday at 9pm to Monday at 5am. Shops and catering facilities will be open until 6pm, says the director of the Public Health Institute, Mr Igor Galić, at the press conference.
In Budva and Tivat, where the epidemiological situation is currently worst, catering facilities, companies that trade in non-food products, shopping and fitness centers and gyms are closed, while public gatherings and all sports events are prohibited. The work of educational institutions is prohibited and classes will be organized online. Mr Galić says that the residents of Budva and Tivat are not recommended to leave the territory of their municipalities.
These measures will apply in the next 15 days.
Mr Galić adds that the epidemiological situation in Montenegro is complex. “We have a trend of increasing number of patients, and we have a little more than 8000 active cases”, he explains.
The Minister of Health, Ms Jelena Borovinić Bojović, says that the same epidemiological measures as in Budva and Tivat would be introduced to any other municipality that would in terms of the number of active cases reach 2,000 or more infected people per 100,000 inhabitants within at a 14-day level. According to her, the occupancy of hospital capacities today is 67.9%.
Ms Borovinić Bojović claims that the inspection services in Budva have rather failed. The medical director of the Clinical Center of Montenegro, Mr Zoran Terzić, says that 93 covid-infected patients are hospitalized in that institution, of which the lives of 42 of them are threatened.
