{"id":448134,"date":"2020-04-04T14:13:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T14:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=448134"},"modified":"2020-04-04T14:21:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T14:21:55","slug":"quarantined-in-a-moldovan-village-the-paradox-of-measures-imposed-by-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/quarantined-in-a-moldovan-village-the-paradox-of-measures-imposed-by-authorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarantined in a Moldovan village &#8211; the paradox of measures imposed by authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 5<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>The Republic of Moldova registered, according to the most updated <a href=\"http:\/\/gismoldova.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/opsdashboard\/index.html#\/d274da857ed345efa66e1fbc959b021b\">information <\/a>from the\u00a0Ministry of Health, Labour and Social Protection, <strong>591<\/strong> confirmed cases, 190 suspected cases and 9 deaths because of COVID-19. The cases are spread all over the country,\u00a0but most of cases are concentrated in 3 risk areas &#8211; Chisinau, which includes 39% of the cases of infection, Stefan Voda &#8211; 14% of cases and Soroca &#8211; 12% of all cases.<\/p>\n<p>As Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mai.gov.md\/ro\/news\/angajatii-mai-asigura-monitorizarea-respectarii-de-catre-cetateni-masurilor-de-protectie\">reported<\/a>, <strong>18 971<\/strong> persons are isolated at home and 5 632 persons were verified regarding the way they are isolated.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, there are several cities and villages in Moldova where the local authorities have imposed <strong>partial or full lockdown<\/strong> due to the registered deaths related to coronavirus outbreaks. While the Government never clearly reported on what happens in such localities, some local authority representatives and residents started to talk about the quarantine situation.<\/p>\n<p>They say that\u00a0police patrol cars were placed at the entrance and exit of localities and no one can leave or enter the village or city, without a good reason. The public transportation and all public and private entities, except medical offices, post offices and groceries stores, stopped their activity.<\/p>\n<h3>The paradox of Balceana<\/h3>\n<p>People of <strong>Balceana<\/strong> village, Hancesti district, one of the first villages from Moldova where the lockdown was installed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdg.md\/stiri\/stiri-sociale\/istoria-unui-sat-in-carantina-totala-si-strigatul-de-disperare-al-primarului-unul-imi-spune-ca-se-duce-si-isi-pune-capat-zilelor-altul-ca-se-apuca-de-furat-ca-sa-manance-eu-ce-sa-fac\/\">told<\/a> ZdG that things have changed a lot since the first day of lockdown. At the moment, all their activities are forbidden: <span style=\"color: #993300\">they can no longer receive medicine packages from their relatives and they cannot perform their farming activities related to cultivating crops<\/span> &#8211; one of their main source of obtaining food throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, in order to be able to leave or enter the village,\u00a0to move or pick up packages from the improvised station when entering the village, people must hold and present to the police officers a permit issued by the City Hall. However, the mayor of the village said that he received the prohibition to issue such permits for local people from the MIA officials.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have the indication that no permit is issued to any person, because we are quarantined. Only sick people leave the village with an ambulance and only those who are recovered and healthy, holding a medical certificate from a doctor, can enter the village.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The mayor of Balceana village said that the situation in which people got in is a <em>&#8220;terrible one&#8221;<\/em> and that he hardly manages to cope with the complaints coming from villagers. Some villagers must pay back their bank loans. For that they would need to continue to work their lands, which they are not allowed to do due to not holding permits issued by mayor. The mayor is not allowed by authorities to issue such permits.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\">The paradox exists while the quarantine instructions\u00a0allow short trips for acquiring food, medicines, for obtaining medical assistance, going to the funeral of relatives or farming activities. <span style=\"color: #000000\">The situation got so confusing, that the officers do not allow people to perform even officially permitted activities without the authorisation that is impossible to be obtained.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The MIA response<\/h3>\n<p>The officials of the MIA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdg.md\/importante\/foto-ancheta-interna-in-cadrul-mai-dupa-declaratiile-primarului-din-balceana-pozitia-autoritatilor-de-la-chisinau\/\">claimed<\/a> that an internal service investigation was initiated after the declarations were published by ZdG.\u00a0Secretary of State of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Mariana Grama,\u00a0denied that the situation is so serious, stating that people do have access to medicines and food, while restrictions are imposed because people do not follow precautionary measures.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The permit is required for those who have to work lands. The lands are on the hills, outside the locality. [&#8230;] The mayor has to confirm that a person owns a land parcel\u00a0outside the territory of Balceana village and that he allows him to perform agricultural activities,&#8221;<\/em> mentioned Grama.<\/p>\n<p>The permits, according to the official, are not issued for persons that want to go to the doctor, as they declare one thing and go somewhere else, that being proved by the police monitoring system in several cases, reported Mariana Grama for ZdG. <em>&#8220;People from the village want to go to other localities to buy products, they want to go to the district market, to the bank, to the capital city and I told the mayor that nobody has the right to leave the village, this is what quarantine regime means,&#8221;<\/em> she added.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I understand, human rights and fundamental freedoms are restricted during state of emergency, but this is to ensure the security of other citizens as well, who are outside the quarantine zone.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Blocked roads in Cocieri and Corjova<\/h3>\n<p>Beside the fact police patrol cars were placed at the entrance of every quarantined village, in <strong>Cocieri and Corjova<\/strong> &#8211; two villages located in Transnistria &#8211; a part of the roads connecting them with other regions were blocked, noted the Promo-LEX\u00a0association in a <a href=\"https:\/\/promolex.md\/17203-apel-public-cu-privire-la-lichidarea-impedimentelor-in-libera-circulatie-instalate-si-mentinute-ilegal-de-catre-administratia-regiunii-transnistrene-in-localitatile-corjova-si-cocieri\/?lang=ro\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_448139\" style=\"width: 940px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-448139\" class=\"size-full wp-image-448139\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/promo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"930\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/promo.jpg 930w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/promo-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/promo-768x408.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/promo-400x212.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-448139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Promo-LEX\u00a0association<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The association mentioned that, on the main roads, the customs officers blocked the access, while on the adjacent roads, concrete blocks\u00a0 or other artificially created impediments to prevent circulation were created. <em>&#8220;Because of\u00a0access prohibition, several categories of people who imperatively need to circulate are affected: doctors and pharmacists, farmers, but also people who work in\u00a0state institutions. In addition, the consequences of blocking the roads are also affecting the inhabitants of the nearby villages,&#8221;<\/em> is mentioned in the press release.<\/p>\n<h3>Blocked salaries of teachers from Transnistria<\/h3>\n<p>There are eight schools with teaching in Romanian in the Transnistrian region, which are directly financed from the public budget of the Republic of Moldova.<\/p>\n<p>One of the serious challenges for the employees of these schools is that there are no ATMs in the region that would allow people to withdraw cash from the bank cards issued by Moldovan banks. These cards are not recognized in Transnistria. Usually, teachers go to the Moldovan side, withdraw cash from the ATMs and then exchange it in Transnistrian rubles.<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;We got in touch with the Reintegration Bureau and we hope to be able pass on the right side of the Dniester to withdraw our salaries, otherwise teachers will run out of money,&#8221;<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdg.md\/stiri\/stiri-sociale\/profesorii-din-stanga-nistrului-izolati-geopolitic-epidemiologic-si-financiar\/\">said<\/a> Ion Iovcev, the director of one of these schools.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, lack of money could lead to complete isolation. The director says that if, this month, the teachers are not be able to pay for internet services, they will not be able carry out the process of remote teaching.<\/p>\n<h3>Funerals with high risk of contagion<\/h3>\n<p>One of the reasons people get infected with COVID-19 and die in Moldova is their hospitalisation in the same section with confirmed or suspected patients. That was the case of a woman from <strong>Stefan-Voda<\/strong> district who was sent home in isolation after being hospitalised together with COVID-19 patients.<em> &#8220;She died in quarantine at home, but it&#8217;s known that she was in contact with COVID-19 patients,&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/tv8.md\/2020\/04\/02\/inca-o-femeie-care-a-stat-in-aceeasi-sectie-cu-bolnavi-de-covid-19-a-decedat-la-stefan-voda-primarul-nimeni-nu-a-venit-sa-preleve-probele\/\">explained<\/a>\u00a0the mayor of the village she is from.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor claimed that for seven hours, since the woman had died, <span style=\"color: #993300\">no one came to test her for confirmation or rejection of the virus and that the woman was in contact with other 26 persons<\/span>.\u00a0The mayor also mentioned that there is no special protective equipment in the locality for persons to be involved in the process of burial of the woman. Therefore, even more people risk to get infected.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: moldova.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 5<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>The Republic of Moldova registered, according to the most updated information from the\u00a0Ministry of Health, Labour and Social Protection, 591 confirmed cases, 190 suspected cases and 9 deaths because of COVID-19. The cases are spread all over the country,\u00a0but most of cases are concentrated in 3 risk areas &#8211; Chisinau, which includes 39% of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":448138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,56],"tags":[669,667,609,35,668,27,608,665,31,666],"class_list":["post-448134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-reportaje","tag-agriculture","tag-blocked","tag-coronavirus","tag-important","tag-ministry-of-internal-affairs","tag-moldova","tag-pandemic","tag-quarantine","tag-transnistria","tag-villages"],"content_social_share":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 5<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>The Republic of Moldova registered, according to the most updated <a href=\"http:\/\/gismoldova.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/opsdashboard\/index.html#\/d274da857ed345efa66e1fbc959b021b\">information <\/a>from the\u00a0Ministry of Health, Labour and Social Protection, <strong>591<\/strong> confirmed cases, 190 suspected cases and 9 deaths because of COVID-19. The cases are spread all over the country,\u00a0but most of cases are concentrated in 3 risk areas &#8211; Chisinau, which includes 39% of the cases of infection, Stefan Voda &#8211; 14% of cases and Soroca &#8211; 12% of all cases.<\/p>\n<p>As Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mai.gov.md\/ro\/news\/angajatii-mai-asigura-monitorizarea-respectarii-de-catre-cetateni-masurilor-de-protectie\">reported<\/a>, <strong>18 971<\/strong> persons are isolated at home and 5 632 persons were verified regarding the way they are isolated.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, there are several cities and villages in Moldova where the local authorities have imposed <strong>partial or full lockdown<\/strong> due to the registered deaths related to coronavirus outbreaks. While the Government never clearly reported on what happens in such localities, some local authority representatives and residents started to talk about the quarantine situation.<\/p>\n<p>They say that\u00a0police patrol cars were placed at the entrance and exit of localities and no one can leave or enter the village or city, without a good reason. The public transportation and all public and private entities, except medical offices, post offices and groceries stores, stopped their activity.<\/p>\n<h3>The paradox of Balceana<\/h3>\n<p>People of <strong>Balceana<\/strong> village, Hancesti district, one of the first villages from Moldova where the lockdown was installed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdg.md\/stiri\/stiri-sociale\/istoria-unui-sat-in-carantina-totala-si-strigatul-de-disperare-al-primarului-unul-imi-spune-ca-se-duce-si-isi-pune-capat-zilelor-altul-ca-se-apuca-de-furat-ca-sa-manance-eu-ce-sa-fac\/\">told<\/a> ZdG that things have changed a lot since the first day of lockdown. At the moment, all their activities are forbidden: <span style=\"color: #993300\">they can no longer receive medicine packages from their relatives and they cannot perform their farming activities related to cultivating crops<\/span> &#8211; one of their main source of obtaining food throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, in order to be able to leave or enter the village,\u00a0to move or pick up packages from the improvised station when entering the village, people must hold and present to the police officers a permit issued by the City Hall. However, the mayor of the village said that he received the prohibition to issue such permits for local people from the MIA officials.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have the indication that no permit is issued to any person, because we are quarantined. Only sick people leave the village with an ambulance and only those who are recovered and healthy, holding a medical certificate from a doctor, can enter the village.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The mayor of Balceana village said that the situation in which people got in is a <em>&#8220;terrible one&#8221;<\/em> and that he hardly manages to cope with the complaints coming from villagers. Some villagers must pay back their bank loans. For that they would need to continue to work their lands, which they are not allowed to do due to not holding permits issued by mayor. The mayor is not allowed by authorities to issue such permits.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\">The paradox exists while the quarantine instructions\u00a0allow short trips for acquiring food, medicines, for obtaining medical assistance, going to the funeral of relatives or farming activities. <span style=\"color: #000000\">The situation got so confusing, that the officers do not allow people to perform even officially permitted activities without the authorisation that is impossible to be obtained.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The MIA response<\/h3>\n<p>The officials of the MIA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdg.md\/importante\/foto-ancheta-interna-in-cadrul-mai-dupa-declaratiile-primarului-din-balceana-pozitia-autoritatilor-de-la-chisinau\/\">claimed<\/a> that an internal service investigation was initiated after the declarations were published by ZdG.\u00a0Secretary of State of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Mariana Grama,\u00a0denied that the situation is so serious, stating that people do have access to medicines and food, while restrictions are imposed because people do not follow precautionary measures.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The permit is required for those who have to work lands. The lands are on the hills, outside the locality. [&#8230;] The mayor has to confirm that a person owns a land parcel\u00a0outside the territory of Balceana village and that he allows him to perform agricultural activities,&#8221;<\/em> mentioned Grama.<\/p>\n<p>The permits, according to the official, are not issued for persons that want to go to the doctor, as they declare one thing and go somewhere else, that being proved by the police monitoring system in several cases, reported Mariana Grama for ZdG. <em>&#8220;People from the village want to go to other localities to buy products, they want to go to the district market, to the bank, to the capital city and I told the mayor that nobody has the right to leave the village, this is what quarantine regime means,&#8221;<\/em> she added.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I understand, human rights and fundamental freedoms are restricted during state of emergency, but this is to ensure the security of other citizens as well, who are outside the quarantine zone.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Blocked roads in Cocieri and Corjova<\/h3>\n<p>Beside the fact police patrol cars were placed at the entrance of every quarantined village, in <strong>Cocieri and Corjova<\/strong> &#8211; two villages located in Transnistria &#8211; a part of the roads connecting them with other regions were blocked, noted the Promo-LEX\u00a0association in a <a href=\"https:\/\/promolex.md\/17203-apel-public-cu-privire-la-lichidarea-impedimentelor-in-libera-circulatie-instalate-si-mentinute-ilegal-de-catre-administratia-regiunii-transnistrene-in-localitatile-corjova-si-cocieri\/?lang=ro\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_448139\" style=\"width: 940px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-448139\" class=\"size-full wp-image-448139\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/promo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"930\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/promo.jpg 930w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/promo-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/promo-768x408.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/promo-400x212.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-448139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Promo-LEX\u00a0association<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The association mentioned that, on the main roads, the customs officers blocked the access, while on the adjacent roads, concrete blocks\u00a0 or other artificially created impediments to prevent circulation were created. <em>&#8220;Because of\u00a0access prohibition, several categories of people who imperatively need to circulate are affected: doctors and pharmacists, farmers, but also people who work in\u00a0state institutions. In addition, the consequences of blocking the roads are also affecting the inhabitants of the nearby villages,&#8221;<\/em> is mentioned in the press release.<\/p>\n<h3>Blocked salaries of teachers from Transnistria<\/h3>\n<p>There are eight schools with teaching in Romanian in the Transnistrian region, which are directly financed from the public budget of the Republic of Moldova.<\/p>\n<p>One of the serious challenges for the employees of these schools is that there are no ATMs in the region that would allow people to withdraw cash from the bank cards issued by Moldovan banks. These cards are not recognized in Transnistria. Usually, teachers go to the Moldovan side, withdraw cash from the ATMs and then exchange it in Transnistrian rubles.<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;We got in touch with the Reintegration Bureau and we hope to be able pass on the right side of the Dniester to withdraw our salaries, otherwise teachers will run out of money,&#8221;<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdg.md\/stiri\/stiri-sociale\/profesorii-din-stanga-nistrului-izolati-geopolitic-epidemiologic-si-financiar\/\">said<\/a> Ion Iovcev, the director of one of these schools.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, lack of money could lead to complete isolation. The director says that if, this month, the teachers are not be able to pay for internet services, they will not be able carry out the process of remote teaching.<\/p>\n<h3>Funerals with high risk of contagion<\/h3>\n<p>One of the reasons people get infected with COVID-19 and die in Moldova is their hospitalisation in the same section with confirmed or suspected patients. That was the case of a woman from <strong>Stefan-Voda<\/strong> district who was sent home in isolation after being hospitalised together with COVID-19 patients.<em> &#8220;She died in quarantine at home, but it&#8217;s known that she was in contact with COVID-19 patients,&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/tv8.md\/2020\/04\/02\/inca-o-femeie-care-a-stat-in-aceeasi-sectie-cu-bolnavi-de-covid-19-a-decedat-la-stefan-voda-primarul-nimeni-nu-a-venit-sa-preleve-probele\/\">explained<\/a>\u00a0the mayor of the village she is from.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor claimed that for seven hours, since the woman had died, <span style=\"color: #993300\">no one came to test her for confirmation or rejection of the virus and that the woman was in contact with other 26 persons<\/span>.\u00a0The mayor also mentioned that there is no special protective equipment in the locality for persons to be involved in the process of burial of the woman. Therefore, even more people risk to get infected.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: moldova.org<\/p>\n<div class='heateorSssClear'><\/div><div  class='heateor_sss_sharing_container heateor_sss_horizontal_sharing' data-heateor-sss-href='https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/quarantined-in-a-moldovan-village-the-paradox-of-measures-imposed-by-authorities\/' data-heateor-sss-no-counts=\"1\"><div class='heateor_sss_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\" ><\/div><div class=\"heateor_sss_sharing_ul\"><a aria-label=\"Facebook\" class=\"heateor_sss_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.moldova.org%2Fen%2Fquarantined-in-a-moldovan-village-the-paradox-of-measures-imposed-by-authorities%2F\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><span class=\"heateor_sss_svg\" 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