ROMANIAN ARMY IN SUPPORT OF LOCAL AND CENTRAL AUTHORITIES FOR MANAGING THE HEALTH CRISIS CAUSED BY THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

The contemporary society is facing, during this period, a phenomenon unprecedented in the last hundred years (since the Spanish flu from 1918-1921), extremely complex, difficult to manage and with global expansion - the current pandemic of atypical pneumonia. In an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world, in which human mobility is constantly growing, Romania has in its turn become overwhelmed by this plague. The identified dangers, corroborated with the virulence and high contagiousness of the new SARS-COV-2 coronavirus, imposed, at the level of the Romanian state, an inter-institutional and interdepartmental approach to the management of the problem generated by this pandemic. The Romanian Army as a component part of the National Emergency Management System was called upon to support the management of the special emergency situation generated by the COVID pandemic 19. Keywords: Coronavirus; pandemic; sanitary crisis control measures; Romanian army.