TIRANA – Gripped by the fear of an escalation of the coronavirus epidemic a total lockdown will be enforced with further confinement measures starting from Saturday in Albania.
According to the confinement scheme unveiled by Prime Minister Edi Rama all people will have to stay at home and every shop will be shut from Saturday at 13.00 until Monday at 05.00 am which was applied even during the last weekend.
But the new measure added to the restrictions is that starting from next Monday no one can go shopping without getting a digital permission via email or phone. The permission will be issued to one member of a family.
“It is ready the online application or by text message for the permission of movement of one person of a family to go shopping. After a while we will make available the application which is very simple. So from Monday until the end of the war that will be the only way to come out from house in Tirana and urban centers,” said PM Rama.
Such a model was applied by China during the epidemic when only e family member was allowed to go shopping once in three days./ argumentum.al