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Press Release
Extraordinary Meeting of the Council of Ministers on june 30, 2021
The Council of Ministers met, at the Government Palace, in Dili, and after reviewing the presentation of the epidemiological situation in the municipalities of Baucau and Dili, by the Situation Room of Integrated Centre for Crisis Management, decided to approve the draft Government Resolutions that maintain the imposition of sanitary fencing in the municipalities of Baucau and Dili, until the end of the validity of the current period of the state of emergency, until 11:59 pm on July 1st, 2021. Tomorrow, in the ordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers, the possibility of continuing the imposition of sanitary fencing in these two municipalities will be analysed again.
Thus, the ban on the movement of people between the municipalities of Baucau and Dili and the other administrative districts is maintained, except in duly justified cases for reasons of public safety, public health, humanitarian assistance, maintenance of public supply systems, or the achievement of public interest.
Individuals who provide proof of the full vaccination (two doses) against COVID-19 and accompanying children under the age of six are not covered by this movement ban. END