On Thursday, the National Institute of Public Health (INSP) requested that Bucharest and Ilfov be quarantined, after the COVID-19 incidence rate exceeded 15 per thousand.

Yet outgoing PM Florin Cîțu called a quarantine out of the question and instead proposed wider use of the green certificate and a reduction of some non-essential activities on weekends, reported Digi24.

Raed Arafat, head of the Department for Emergency Situations (DSU), on Friday announced that technical-scientific group of the National Committee for Emergency Situations (CNSU) rejected the proposal to quarantine Bucharest and Ilfov, Agerpres reported.