Romanian president describes ‘the new normal.’ No groups bigger than 3, malls, restaurants closed, sports events without spectators
Life won’t go back to normal after the state of emergency ends on May 15, or rather there will be a new normal, Romania’s president said in his first press conference since the coronavirus pandemic began in March.
“We still won’t be able to meet in groups larger than three, we won’t be able...
UPDATE. 200 Romanians test positive for COVID-19 after outbreak at slaughterhouse in Germany
An outbreak of coronavirus at slaughterhouse in southeast Germany has sickened roughly 200 Romanians, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.
The Romanians were working at an abattoir in Birkenfeld near the town of Pforzheim. Some 500 of the 700 employees at the facility are Romanian citizens, and were sub-contracted to work there.
Romanian court hands ex-Parliament speaker three-year prison sentence for influence trafficking
A Romanian
court has sentenced a former Parliament speaker to three years in prison for influence
peddling.
Valeriu Zgonea, who was speaker of the Chamber of Deputies from 2012-2016, was convicted and sentenced Monday on charges that he used his position to engineer a job in the public sector for the daughter of a local politician....
A year after his visit, statue of Pope Francis to be unveiled in Romanian capital
A statue
of Pope Francis will be unveiled in Bucharest, a year after hundreds of thousands
of believers and fans flocked to see him during a three-day visit to Romania.
The
statue will be put up near the Cismigiu Gardens in the vicinity of the
diplomatic mission of the Holy See.
The statue has...
Eleven newborn babies test positive for COVID-19 at Romanian hospital
A Romanian hospital says that eleven newborns have tested positive for the new coronavirus. Their mothers are not infected with the virus.
The Odobescu maternity wing at the Timisoara Municipal Hospital on Monday said all but one of the babies had left the hospital with their mothers, pressalert.ro reported.
The...
Romanian jailed strongman’s girlfriend posts love poem on Instagram for his birthday
What do you give the man who once almost had everything, but is now confined
to a prison cell?
Your heart? Even better, make a public gesture of it in grand literary
style.
That’s what Irina Tanase did to wish boyfriend Liviu Dragnea a happy
birthday.
She dedicated a poem to...
Romania reports 11,616 cases of coronavirus and 650 deaths
Romanian authorities say 277 new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the last day, bringing the total of infections to 11,616.
The Strategic Communication Group said Tuesday that 650 people had died from the virus since the outbreak began in March.
Some 243 patients are currently being treated for the...
Almost half COVID-19 infections, deaths in Romania in five counties. Men account for almost two-thirds of virus deaths
Nearly half of deaths from COVID-19 in Romania occurred five areas, a report on Tuesday said, revealing how the highly transmittable virus has torn through some regions, while other places have remained almost untouched.
Suceava in northern Romania accounts for 18.6% all of all deaths. Other hard-hit regions...
Romania virus cases soar to over 400 for third day. Police do spot checks at tourist areas to catch Covid-19 rule breakers
A surge in coronavirus cases continued Saturday, with 416 new coronavirus cases. In a bid to halt the spread of the virus, police descended on tourist spots to catch Covid-19 rule breakers.
The Strategic
Communication Group said 23 people succumbed to the virus in the past 24 hours and
the total number of cases rose...
Romanian PM urges people to respect Covid-19 guidelines. ‘Don’t listen to the siren song’
Prime Minister Ludovic Orban appealed to people to wear face masks and social distance, saying that if the current spike in Covid-19 cases continued, he would extend the current state of alert and not relax the lockdown.
“If I had to make a decision today, I’d propose extending the state of alert, I’d decide...
