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Romanian police have seized a huge sturgeon and 40 kilograms of black caviar from three homes near the Danube Delta. The Coast Guard said they went into the homes of three men suspected of poaching in the southeastern town of Harsova on Monday acting on search warrant from a county court. They found a fish which weighed 90...

Romanian authorities on Thursday confirmed two new cases, bringing the total number to 48. There have been no deaths as a result of the virus. Wednesday saw 18 new cases of  COVID-19 in Romania, the largest number in a single day so more and more than China reported on the same day.

Fanatic supporters of Romania’s president are far and few between. The former mayor of the Transylvanian town of Sibiu generally doesn’t evoke great enthusiasm even among his voters. The strongest rhetoric about Klaus Iohannis comes from the opposition Social Democrats who call him a “Nazi” and “a dictator.” Yet, Mr. Iohannis, an ethnic German, is the clear favorite...

Romanian authorities say the number of COVID-19 cases rose to 5,202, with 441 fresh cases reported in the last 24 hours. The Strategic Communication Group said 228 people died after catching the virus. The northern county of Suceava is the epicenter of the virus outbreak with 1,487 cases, followed by the capital, Bucharest with...

Hundreds of baby sturgeons were successfully released into the Danube in an effort to boost the wild populations of the critically endangered fish, one of the four remaining native Danube sturgeon species. World Wildlife Fund Romania has been working to protect sturgeon and their natural habitats. Last year, the group released over 1,000 young sturgeons...

French-Romanian carmaker, Automobile Dacia, says it plans to resume operations, more than a month after it was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic. The company said manufacturing would resume at its plant in southern Romania, in two stages, on April 21, two days after Orthodox Easter and then on May 4.

Romania’s Prime Minister Ludovic Orban has passed a resolution allowing travelers from five more European countries to enter Romania starting Tuesday without having to undergo quarantine. Travel restrictions were lifted Monday for Finland, Italy, France, Estonia and Ireland following a drop in infections in those countries. The five countries join seventeen...

Hundreds of Romanian workers at Germany’s biggest slaughterhouse have tested positive for the coronavirus, authorities said. Some 650 Romanians out of a total of 1,300 employees contracted the virus at the Tonnies meat processing factory, in northwestern Germany, the Romanian foreign ministry said. Romanians, Bulgarians and workers elsewhere in European countries are employed at the slaughterhouse,...

 Romanian President Klaus Iohannis says the country will suspend some joint projects with Moldova until the country returns to the "European track" and embarks on justice reforms and fighting corruption.  Iohannis on Thursday said his office was “not convinced” that the current government in Chisinau is on what he called “the European track,” calling it “the...

Health Minister Nelu Tartaru on Monday warned that the spread of the coronavirus in Romania could shortly get out of control if people fail to wear masks and respect social distancing rules. “At the moment we have a handle on this somewhat predictable rise in cases,” Tataru said. “We are recommending people...