{"id":448859,"date":"2020-10-14T19:04:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T19:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=448859"},"modified":"2020-10-15T17:57:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T17:57:29","slug":"celebrating-no-matter-what-chisinau-anniversary-amid-the-coronavirus-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/celebrating-no-matter-what-chisinau-anniversary-amid-the-coronavirus-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating &#8220;no matter what&#8221; &#8211; Chisinau anniversary amid the coronavirus pandemic"},"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\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>Organising free entry events despite the imminent danger of infection, where people can easily ignore any restrictions and not even be noticed &#8211; that was one of typical mistakes authorities of different countries made at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Later on, it turned out to cost people&#8217;s lives and important economic and social resources.<\/p>\n<p>We are far from being at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. We&#8217;ve already seen a lot. We should be aware of the consequences of our own irresponsible or careless behaviour. We already should know that basic measures need to be taken when going out and meeting people. Since March 2020, Moldovan authorities imposed a lot of restrictions and rules, started information campaigns, fined thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in just one day, it cancelled its own efforts and thoughtlessly organised an event to celebrate the capital city anniversary. Why? Because there are elections on November 1 in Moldova and, even during a pandemic, politicians need to polish their images.<\/p>\n<p>This is how things are working in Moldova. This is how they have been always working. We just hadn&#8217;t had massive coronavirus infections before.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_448862\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-448862\" class=\"wp-image-448862 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/festivitate2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/festivitate2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/festivitate2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/festivitate2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/festivitate2-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-448862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Ion Ceban| Facebook<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_448864\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-448864\" class=\"wp-image-448864 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/festivitate3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/festivitate3.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/festivitate3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/festivitate3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/festivitate3-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-448864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Ion Ceban| Facebook<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Now, when new record figures are registered every day, hundreds of people gathered in the city centre of Chisinau. That is while the <strong>National Extraordinary Public Health Commission (NEPHC)<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/cancelaria.gov.md\/sites\/default\/files\/hotarirea_cnesp_nr.33_28.09.2020.pdf\">restricted<\/a> mass events to a number of maximum 50 participants.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to not matter that there is a red code warning in<span style=\"color: #993300;\"> Chisinau, as one of the biggest contagion epicentres of the country<\/span>. Some people weren&#8217;t wearing masks at all, others were wearing them incorrectly and didn&#8217;t keep social distance.<\/p>\n<p>The most iconic image of the event, which was held on the steps of the metropolitan cathedral, was that of the president, the mayor of Chisinau and the bishop of the Moldovan Orthodox Church standing all the time in front of people, as if to remind whom they owe this celebration to.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_448860\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-448860\" class=\"size-full wp-image-448860\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/dodon-si-mitrop2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/dodon-si-mitrop2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/dodon-si-mitrop2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/dodon-si-mitrop2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/dodon-si-mitrop2-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-448860\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Ion Ceban| Facebook<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_448861\" style=\"width: 1930px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-448861\" class=\"size-full wp-image-448861\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/dodon-si-mitrp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/dodon-si-mitrp.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/dodon-si-mitrp-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/dodon-si-mitrp-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/dodon-si-mitrp-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/dodon-si-mitrp-1250x703.jpg 1250w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/dodon-si-mitrp-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-448861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: TV8<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The General Police Inspectorate of Moldova claimed that<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> the event took place<\/span> while respecting all social distance norms and that epidemiological rules were not violated because the flow of people was in transit, not permanent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On October 14, a new record of daily confirmed COVID-19 cases was <a href=\"http:\/\/gismoldova.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/opsdashboard\/index.html#\/d274da857ed345efa66e1fbc959b021b\">registered<\/a> &#8211; 1149. A total of 1514 people from Moldova died due to the consequences of the infection. Moldova is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/1110187\/coronavirus-incidence-europe-by-country\/\">in top 10 European countries<\/a> when talking about the incidence of cases (the number of confirmed cases per 100 000 population) &#8211; <strong>1564.95 cases per 100 000 population<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>These figures will still grow in the days to come and such events represent an important catalyst for their growth. As long as politicians think about elections rather than public health we have no chance of getting out of the pandemic soon.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Ion Ceban| Facebook<\/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\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>Organising free entry events despite the imminent danger of infection, where people can easily ignore any restrictions and not even be noticed &#8211; that was one of typical mistakes authorities of different countries made at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Later on, it turned out to cost people&#8217;s lives and important economic and social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":448863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[706,642,100,424,35,27,608,739],"class_list":["post-448859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-celebration","tag-covid-19","tag-elections","tag-event","tag-important","tag-moldova","tag-pandemic","tag-restrictions"],"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\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>Organising free entry events despite the imminent danger of infection, where people can easily ignore any restrictions and not even be noticed &#8211; that was one of typical mistakes authorities of different countries made at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Later on, it turned out to cost people&#8217;s lives and important economic and social resources.<\/p>\n<p>We are far from being at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. We&#8217;ve already seen a lot. We should be aware of the consequences of our own irresponsible or careless behaviour. We already should know that basic measures need to be taken when going out and meeting people. Since March 2020, Moldovan authorities imposed a lot of restrictions and rules, started information campaigns, fined thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in just one day, it cancelled its own efforts and thoughtlessly organised an event to celebrate the capital city anniversary. Why? Because there are elections on November 1 in Moldova and, even during a pandemic, politicians need to polish their images.<\/p>\n<p>This is how things are working in Moldova. This is how they have been always working. We just hadn&#8217;t had massive coronavirus infections before.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_448862\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-448862\" class=\"wp-image-448862 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/festivitate2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/festivitate2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/festivitate2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/festivitate2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/festivitate2-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-448862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Ion Ceban| Facebook<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_448864\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-448864\" class=\"wp-image-448864 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/festivitate3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/festivitate3.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/festivitate3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/festivitate3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/festivitate3-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-448864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Ion Ceban| Facebook<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Now, when new record figures are registered every day, hundreds of people gathered in the city centre of Chisinau. That is while the <strong>National Extraordinary Public Health Commission (NEPHC)<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/cancelaria.gov.md\/sites\/default\/files\/hotarirea_cnesp_nr.33_28.09.2020.pdf\">restricted<\/a> mass events to a number of maximum 50 participants.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to not matter that there is a red code warning in<span style=\"color: #993300;\"> Chisinau, as one of the biggest contagion epicentres of the country<\/span>. Some people weren&#8217;t wearing masks at all, others were wearing them incorrectly and didn&#8217;t keep social distance.<\/p>\n<p>The most iconic image of the event, which was held on the steps of the metropolitan cathedral, was that of the president, the mayor of Chisinau and the bishop of the Moldovan Orthodox Church standing all the time in front of people, as if to remind whom they owe this celebration to.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_448860\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-448860\" class=\"size-full wp-image-448860\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/dodon-si-mitrop2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/dodon-si-mitrop2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/dodon-si-mitrop2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/dodon-si-mitrop2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/dodon-si-mitrop2-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-448860\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Ion Ceban| Facebook<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_448861\" style=\"width: 1930px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-448861\" class=\"size-full wp-image-448861\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/dodon-si-mitrp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/dodon-si-mitrp.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/dodon-si-mitrp-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/dodon-si-mitrp-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/dodon-si-mitrp-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/dodon-si-mitrp-1250x703.jpg 1250w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/dodon-si-mitrp-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-448861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: TV8<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The General Police Inspectorate of Moldova claimed that<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> the event took place<\/span> while respecting all social distance norms and that epidemiological rules were not violated because the flow of people was in transit, not permanent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On October 14, a new record of daily confirmed COVID-19 cases was <a href=\"http:\/\/gismoldova.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/opsdashboard\/index.html#\/d274da857ed345efa66e1fbc959b021b\">registered<\/a> &#8211; 1149. A total of 1514 people from Moldova died due to the consequences of the infection. Moldova is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/1110187\/coronavirus-incidence-europe-by-country\/\">in top 10 European countries<\/a> when talking about the incidence of cases (the number of confirmed cases per 100 000 population) &#8211; <strong>1564.95 cases per 100 000 population<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>These figures will still grow in the days to come and such events represent an important catalyst for their growth. As long as politicians think about elections rather than public health we have no chance of getting out of the pandemic soon.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Ion Ceban| Facebook<\/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\/celebrating-no-matter-what-chisinau-anniversary-amid-the-coronavirus-pandemic\/' 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%2Fcelebrating-no-matter-what-chisinau-anniversary-amid-the-coronavirus-pandemic%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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