Major retailers fined after 33 million face masks in Romania found not to meet safety standards
Major retailers have been fined after a staggering 33 million face masks checked in the last month failed to meet legal safety standards, authorities said Friday.
Supermarket
retailers Lidl, Kaufland, Mega Image, Auchan, Altex and Profi were among the
places found to be selling sub-standard face coverings following a month of checks
by consumer protection authorities.
Prince Charles congratulates Romanians for winning European prize for saving endangered historic buildings
Britain’s Prince Charles has congratulated Romanian volunteers for winning a European prize for their efforts to save heritage-listed buildings in the Transylvania region and elsewhere in Romania.
The “Ambulance for Monuments” was announced on Thursday as a winner of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards. It was one of 21 winners from...
Safe cities? Come to Transylvania where towns have least crime in the world-study
Transylvania is best known for the bloodthirsty Dracula legend, but Transylvanian cities have the least crime not only in Romania, but anywhere in the world according to a new global study.
The Crime
Index 2020 ranked Cluj, Romania’s second-biggest city, as the safest in Romania.
Brasov and Timisoara which are also in the northwest Transylvanian region...
Coronavirus death toll rises to 146 in Romania
Romania
confirmed 3,613 cases of people with the new coronavirus on Saturday, and 146 deaths.
There were
430 new cases in the past 24 hours, the Strategic Communication Group said.
Some 329 patients have recovered since the outbreak, authorities said.
There are
currently 119 people in intensive care in Romanian...
Marcel Ciolacu elected leader of Romania’s Social Democrats. We ‘must break with past’ and not interfere with justice system
Marcel Ciolacu was overwhelmingly voted as chairman of Social
Democrat Party on Saturday and vowed not to tamper with Romania’s legal system
unlike his predecessor, a move which alienated the party from Social Democratic
European parties.
Ciolacu won 1,310 votes in a secret ballot to defeat former Finance Minister Eugen Teodorovici who polled just 91 votes. There...
Romania hopes to secure one million anti-Covid-19 vaccines by beginning of 2021
President Klaus Iohannis said he is hopeful of securing one million anti
Covid-19 vaccines at the beginning of 2021 so the first wave of vaccinations
can start.
The president spoke Thursday evening after a meeting of the country’s top defense body, the Supreme Defense Council where officials approved a strategy for the vaccine program.
Romania marks 20 years since the death of Ion Ratiu ‘the best president Romania never had’
Romania is marking 20 years since the death of Ion
Ratiu, a symbol of democracy and debonair style, dubbed “the best president Romania
never had.”
Ratiu, who once chained himself to the railings
outside London’s Ritz hotel to protest the plight of Romanians under communism,
died in London on Jan. 17, 2000 after suffering esophagus cancer.
Four children die in house fire in Romania while ‘mother at gambling hall’
Four children including a 3-month baby have died after a fire broke out in in their home in the southwestern city of Timisoara. The children’s parents were not at home at the time, media reported.
A 14-year-old boy, the oldest of the five siblings, managed to escape and raised the alarm. Neighbors told reporters...
Romanian Orthodox Church: millions of believers forced to celebrate Easter at home due to coronavirus pandemic
It’s one of the visual symbols of Romania: worshipers thronging to Orthodox churches for the Easter service that starts just before midnight and lasts until dawn.
Only this year, the coronavirus pandemic has put
the ancient tradition on hold.
Orthodox believers celebrate Easter on April 19 this year and Palm Sunday...
Public health chief warns about ICU surge in Romania if Covid-19 surge continues. ‘We don’t want to get into a situation like Italy’
A Romanian public health chief has warned that if a surge in Covid-19 cases continues, hospitals will be overwhelmed.
Simona Pârvu, head of the National Public Health Institute, told Radio Free Europe on Tuesday that of Covid-19 figures continued to rise in the next two-three weeks, Romania “would be in the situation Italy...
