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After weeks of political wrangling when hundreds of Covid-19 patients voluntarily discharged themselves from hospital, Romania’s Parliament has passed a law to enforce quarantine and isolation amid a surge in infections. Senators voted 115-8 with 3 abstentions late Thursday in favor of new legislation that spells out when people can be quarantined or placed in self-isolation.

Romanian authorities confirmed a record 777 new cases of Covid-19 on Thursday taking the total number of infections in the European Union state to 35,003 The Strategic Communication Group said a record 19,097 tests were conducted nationwide in the past 24 hours. Although the new infections were the highest ever recorded...

Millions of Romanians have been forced to leave the country and seek out better opportunities and jobs in the last 30 years due to rampant corruption, the deputy prime minister said Monday. “Millions of parents and children were hounded out by the effects of corruption which forced (Romanians) to make a future far...

Britain's Prince of Wales has thanked Romanians who are working in the UK's National Health Service and care homes during the coronavirus outbreak and were unable to return home for Easter due to the lockdown. “I … just want you all to know how much I am thinking of you at this most holy...

Romania says it has completed the first phase of an ambitious  European Union-backed gas pipeline project that connects Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and Austria. The building of the pipeline has been fraught with problems and the latest milestone in the mega-project was no exception with a Romania official using the occasion for historic one-upmanship The first...

Britain is paying £1 million of UK taxpayers’ cash yearly in child benefit to youngsters in Romania, the Sun reported. Under European Union rules, a EU national working in the UK can claim weekly benefit of £20.70 for the first child and £13.70 for all others, even if they left their children behind. The official tax figures...

President Klaus Iohannis says barbers, dentists and museums can re-open from mid-May as the country begins to relax the lockdown which was put in place to limit the spread of COVID-19. After reviewing the current state of the virus outbreak, Iohannis said Monday that he had decided to downgrade the state of emergency to...

Romania’s government has calculated that daily figures could rise to 1,200-1,600 by the middle of August, G4Media said, citing a government document used to justify the extended state of alert. The forecast was made by the Technical-Scientific National Committee for Emergency Situations. Romania on Thursday extended the state of alert for 30 days...

Romania reported 196 deaths of patients with Covid-19 on Tuesday, the highest single-day tally in two weeks, even as new cases dropped to 7,753. The Strategic Communication Group said more than 30,000 tests were carried out giving a positivity rate of 25%, the lowest rate in a fortnight. Cases fell in the capital Bucharest and...

Rookie police officers "abusively" fined some Romanians for breaking lockdown rules during the COVID-19 state of emergency, the interior minister acknowledged Monday. Marcel Vela said “very many young police officers who had only completed six months of Police Academy” were sent to police Romania’s streets during the lockdown. “We...