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The city of Suceava in northern Romania was the epicenter of the pandemic when it first started. For the past two weeks, there have been no new cases on several days and a maximum of four on others. The city's mayor said this week he believes that a religious procession earlier this year in the city led to a drop in...

Romania has joined international effort to deliver urgent aid to Covid-hit India. The National Committee for Emergency Situations agreed  on Tuesday to send 80 oxygen concentrators and 75 oxygen cylinders and grant humanitarian aid to India which is struggling with record numbers of Covid-19 infections and deaths. Medical supplies

 Moldova will hold snap parliamentary elections on July 11, after the president signed a decree dissolving Parliament. The development came followed a ruling by the Constitutional Court earlier Wednesday that a decision by parliament to introduce a state of emergency in the former Soviet republic was unconstitutional. That opened the way...

As Romanians prepare to celebrate their second Easter during the pandemic, a survey shows that staying at home with family and decorated eggs are the most popular activities over the holidays.. The poll which was carried out by iSense Solutions showed that about four-fifths of Romanians who live in towns and cities are...

At the beginning of April 2021, the management of Siemens Mobility Romania - Florian Paul Roettig, CEO Siemens Mobility SRL & Adrian Stoica, CFO Siemens Mobility SRL, were invited to participate to a public consultation in the presence of members of the Ministry of Transportation regarding the renewal of rolling stock through the National Recovery and Resilience...

A Romanian man who took paracetamol for a year as he was scared of catching Covid-19 has been hospitalized with kidney failure caused by the painkillers. Paracetamol The unnamed man, 52, was hospitalized in mid June at the Dr C I Parhon clinic in the northeast city of Iasi after taking an excessive amount of paracetamol over the course of a...

Almost two-thirds of Romanians who live in major cities would move to the countryside in the next two years….. as long as they have a good internet connection, a study by mobile provider Vodafone has found. Vodafone Institute The majority of urbanites (59%) said the pandemic had changed their way of thinking about living in the country, according to the survey...

Social media giant Facebook has partnered with Romanian police to help find missing children in Romania. Romania became the 24th country to join Facebook’s “Amber Alert” program which is an emergency missing child alert. In Romania, police call it  a “Child Abduction Alert”. Police issue the alert when a child that is under 18 is abducted and is “at imminent risk of...

Romania’s health minister says the more infectious Delta Covid-19 variant will become dominant in Romania. Surge Health Minister Ioana Mihaila said that authorities would take measures to add hospital beds in the case of a surge in infections. “As in other countries where the Delta strain has become dominant, we also expect it to become the dominant variant. The problem with the...

Police have detained a Romanian Orthodox priest after he was caught having sex with a minor. The Romanian Orthodox Church called it “a grave deed” of “unspeakable sadness.” The church spokesman said the priest would be defrocked, meaning he can no longer serve as a man of the cloth. The unnamed priest...