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A leading bank says Romania’s economy will contract by 6.6% this year due to measures taken during the coronavirus pandemic. ING bank Romania, the local subsidiary of the Dutch multinational bank, revised its forecast sharply downwards less than two weeks after the previous projection which was minus 0.9%, Ziarul Financiar reported.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Romania rose to 1,915 on Monday, with 192 new cases recorded in the past 24 hours. The Strategic Communication Group said 47 people had died of the COVID-19 since the outbreak.   Most the patients who died from the effects of the virus had existing...

The Transylvanian town of Turda has gone green after it became the first place in Romania to have a public transport system that runs exclusively on electricity. The town hall said Monday it had acquired a fleet of 20 new electric buses which are produced by Czech company SOR Bus, and purchased with EU funds.

The future of the office has become an open question around after the coronavirus lockdown forced millions around the world to work from home. A Romanian investor recently went on record saying he believed offices still have a future despite a mass shift of workers to remote working in recent months. pandemic.

A coronavirus outbreak has sickened 16 healthcare workers at one of Bucharest’s largest hospitals, authorities said. Seven nurses, six nursing assistants, a doctor, a trainee doctor and a stretcher-bearer from the Bagdasar-Arseni Emergency Hospital and tested positive for the virus on Monday, the Strategic Communication Group said. Tests were being carried out on dozens of other medical...

Romanian authorities say 54 patients with the novel coronavirus have died in the past day, the second day in a row when there have been more than 50 deaths. The Strategic Communication Group said there were 1,256 new cases from Tuesday to Wednesday, a rise from previous days. But there was...

I woke at just before 3am, reached for my phone and clicked on the Guardian and the Daily Mail websites. Something was afoot: the papers, which are from different ends of the political spectrum, were telling the same story. An upset of momentous proportions was on the horizon. Britain looked as if it was about to vote...

Romania’s population, which has steadily decreased in recent years, is projected to shrink even further in the next 50 years. By 2070, Romania’s population will be 15 million, the European Commission said. When communism ended in 1989, Romania had a population of 23 million. Over the past 30 years, it dropped by 3.8...

It was nearly the perfect forgery. For six years, three Romanian money counterfeiters manufactured and put into circulation 17,000 replicas of the 100 lei bill, fake currency worth a total of 354,000 euros. For years, investigators searched for a clue, a way to crack the crime. They even brought Europol officers...

Dumitru Comanescu, the world’s oldest man, has died at the age of 111 and almost eight months, Romanian authorities said. Romanian Comanescu who took the title less than a month ago passed on Saturday morning, the director of the Bucharest Center for Seniors, Alexandra Dobre told Digi24. There was no word on the cause of death.