The temporary ban, which will come into effect on Sunday, would prevent people who had visited certain regions in the three countries in the last 14 days from visiting or transiting in IndonesiaThe policy will affect people who have a recent history of travel to Tehran, Qom and Gilan in...
Coronavirus Update; MRT Begins Checking Passengers’ Temperature
PT MRT Jakarta (Perseroda) has started to take passengers' body temperature as a preemptive measure against the coronavirus outbreak. The body temperature checks are conducted at all station entrances. Passengers with symptoms of high fever are denied entry.Jakarta MRT has in parallel issued a special director's regulation to strengthen the...
Guidance from the European Commission on using the public procurement framework in the emergency situation related to the COVID-19 crisis
Introduction – Options and flexibilities under the public procurement framework COVID-19 is a health crisis that requires swift and smart solutions and agility in dealing with an immense increase of demand for similar goods and services while certain supply chains are disrupted. Public buyers in the Member States are at...
EU Soft Law Instruments as a Tool to Tackle the COVID-19 Crisis: Looking at the “Guidance” on Public Procurement Through the Prism of Solidarity
ABSTRACT: The European Commission has used soft law instruments to tackle the COVID-19 crisis. In so doing, it not only tried to accommodate the emergency within the flexibilities inherent in EU law, but it also assumed, along with national authorities, its own share of responsibility to respond to eco- nomic...
Bank Indonesia announces 5 measures to support rupiah amid market rout
First, starting March 16, the requirement for banks to store their dollar funds at BI, called the US$ reserve requirement ratio (RRR), would be lowered to 4 percent from 8 percent at present. Second, the rupiah RRR is also being lowered by 50 basis points (bps), but only for banks...
Indonesia bars entry to visitors from China amid evacuation protest
Indonesia will temporarily stop flights to and from mainland China starting Wednesday. It will immediately bar visitors who have been in China for 14 days from entering or transiting, Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi told a televised news conference. Read more ...
The Italian Response to Coronavirus and Constitutional Disagreement
In this post, I first offer an essential account of how Italy has dealt with the Coronavirus outbreak. I then discuss the main points of controversy raised by public law scholars about the government response, before concluding with reflections on the broader debate about democracy and constitutionalism in times of...
GLOBAL INFLUENZA STRATEGY
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Rolling updates on coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
9 May 2020 Der Spiegel reports of a 21 January, 2020, telephone conversation between WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and President Xi Jingping of China are unfounded and untrue. Dr Tedros and President Xi did not speak on 21 January and they have never spoken by telephone. Such inaccurate...
