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Romanian authorities said the number of cases climbed to 12,240 on Thursday and the death count rose to almost 700. The Strategic Communication Group said 262 new cases had been confirmed in the last 24 hours. The total number of tests conducted since the virus outbreak in March is now 175,374...

Romania’s national air carrier Tarom has announced new routes from western Romania to the Black Sea coast this summer. Most Romanians are expected to vacation at home this year due to the pandemic, either for economic reasons, due to fears about visiting countries with a large number of coronavirus cases or uncertainties about foreign travel and...

Cesarean births are growing at “an alarming” rate in Romania, medical officials have warned, and the country now has one of the highest rates of C-section births in the world. Sen. Emanuel Botnariu, a doctor on the Senate’s public health committee, says the procedure accounts for 60% of births in Romania.

U.S. healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson says it is donating 650,000 lei (about 135,000 euros) to help patients with chronic illnesses and buy protective equipment for health workers treating COVID-19 patients. The company said on Wednesday that it would work with the Romanian Red Cross and the Federation of the Associations of Cancer Sufferers,...

A billboard campaign showing medics dealing with the coronavirus pandemic as saints with halos shaped like the virus has drawn the wrath of the Romanian Orthodox Church. The church spokesman said the campaign was “marked by bad taste fed by ignorance and a hideous ideology that only knows...

Romania has 308 cases of people who tested positive for the new coronavirus, with 11 patients receiving treatment in intensive care, authorities said Friday. Thirty-one new cases were registered in the past 24 hours, the Strategic Communication Group said. The new cases are aged between 17 and 89. A total of 31 people...

Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis tasked the incoming Liberal government with making sure that upcoming presidential elections were well organized, following criticism of the way authorities handled previous presidential ballots. Authorities in the capital announced Tuesday they will provide services for residents whose identity papers have expired, are lost, have been stolen or damaged,...

A former Romanian justice minister says he will be removed as one of the country’s two representatives at the Venice Commission, calling the request for his dismissal a politically motivated move. The ex-minister Tudorel Toader said his impending removal came after a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights last month that Romania’s former anti-graft chief...

It was a giant cloud that looked like a tsunami enveloping the skyline along the Romanian Black sea coast. The gray, billowing cloud with a white edge appeared in the sky at the Black Sea resort of Mamaia on Tuesday was quickly snapped by tourists. They uploaded the images on...

Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis has defended the decision to reopen state schools  next week even as coronavirus cases remain high in the European Union member state. “Although it wasn’t an easy decision to open schools, it was the right one and necessary,” Mr. Iohannis told reporters Wednesday evening at a press conference at the Cotroceni presidential...