Tomorrow, May 1st, stay home. MPB warns fines

The Ministry of Interior Affairs and Public Administration has reminded Kosovo citizens that parks and other public spaces continue to be closed, as a preventative measure of corruption. A day before 1 May, the ministry has indicated that no citizens' collection will be allowed, on the contrary, to be fined.

Citizens in Kosovo 1 May mark it with mass exits and gatherings in parks and other public spaces, but since this year this date finds the country isolated due to the spread of Covid-19.

We want to remind you that all decisions of the Government of Kosovo continue to remain in force, for closing parks and all public spaces, and the mass collection of citizens will not be allowed. We understand very well the situation about May 1st, which in our country is also a tradition of massing citizens, yet we seek your understanding, so that you will not come out and apply the decisions of the Government, otherwise you will be punished according to legal provisions at the force of”, says the Ministry of Internal Affairs report.

The Interior Ministry has called on citizens to respect measures to limit movement.

Kosovo has entered the seventh week of confronting the Coronavirus, on March 13th, when the first infected persons were confirmed.

So far all over Kosovo are 799 infected, 249 healed and 22 dead with Covid-19.

Under the Health Ministry's decision, new measures have been imposed since 15 April restricting the movement of citizens who can leave their homes only 90 minutes per day, respecting the rule that is determined with the pre-time ID number.

The decision is in effect until May 4th, and after that date, there is talk of relief measures if the number of infected marks decline.