VIDEO. Storms batter Romania leaving one dead. Flooding sweeps north and western Romania, with more bad weather in the way
Storms and flooding have battered northern and western Romania, flooding crops, overturning a car, inundating homes, roads, and railway lines and leaving at least one person dead.
The National Meteorological Administration on Tuesday issued a fresh weather warning for three-fourths of the country and an amber warning until Wednesday evening for showers and atmospheric...
Romania reports 214 new cases of coronavirus in last day and 16 deaths
The number of new coronavirus cases dropped on Tuesday, amid fears that authorities could lose control of the virus.
The Strategic Communication Group said there were 214 new cases confirmed following 9,000 tests. That was less than Monday when there were 246 cases and also fewer than previous days when more than 300...
Coronavirus cases cross 10,000 in Romania, and death count rises to 527
The number of coronavirus cases rose to 10,096 in Romania on Thursday, with almost 400 new cases confirmed in the last day. The government’s Strategic Communication Group said the death count reached 527 since reporting began 58 days ago. About 1,000 Romanians abroad have tested positive for COVID-19, and 66 of...
Shahab-3, the Iranian missile capable of hitting Romania. If there’s an Iran attack, how does the Deveselu anti-missile system work?
Amid rising tensions about the situation in the Middle East following the killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani by a U.S. drone, there is fresh public interest in NATO’s land-based missile defense system in Deveselu, southern Romania.
What does it do? What missiles can it intercept? Is it fully
prepared?
Iran...
Romanian PM says top medical research facility will double COVID-19 tests
Romania’s Prime Minister says the country’s Cantacuzino Institute will carry out 1,000 COVID-19 tests a day, double the current number.
Ludovic Orban visited the medical research facility in Bucharest on Thursday and said the government’s “objective is to increase the testing capacity, so we can test as...
Pofta Buna! After five-month closure, restaurants should reopen on Sept. 1, Romanian PM says
Romania’s prime minister is eyeing September 1 as the date to reopen restaurants that were closed in mid-March as the coronavirus pandemic spread to Romania.
Premier Ludovic Orban said late Monday he had asked government specialists for an assessment on how to safely reopen restaurants, which have seen their business shrink or close...
Caviar crackdown: police seize 40 kilograms of caviar and 90-kilogram sturgeon from suspected poachers
Romanian
police have seized a huge sturgeon and 40 kilograms of black caviar from three
homes near the Danube Delta.
The Coast
Guard said they went into the homes of three men suspected of poaching in the southeastern
town of Harsova on Monday acting on search warrant from a county court. They
found a fish which weighed 90...
UPDATE. Romania reports 2 new cases of coronavirus, bringing total to 48. Nobody has died from the killer virus
Romanian authorities on Thursday confirmed two new cases, bringing the
total number to 48. There have been no deaths as a result of the virus.
Wednesday saw 18 new cases of COVID-19 in Romania, the largest number in a single day so more and more than China reported on the same day.
2019 presidential election.Ethnic German on course to be elected president of Romania for a second time
Fanatic supporters of Romania’s president are far and few between.
The former mayor of the Transylvanian town of Sibiu generally doesn’t evoke great
enthusiasm even among his voters. The strongest rhetoric about Klaus Iohannis
comes from the opposition Social Democrats who call him a “Nazi” and “a
dictator.”
Yet, Mr. Iohannis, an ethnic German, is the clear favorite...
Coronavirus cases rise to 5,200 in Romania, with 441 cases reported in the last 24 hours
Romanian
authorities say the number of COVID-19 cases rose to 5,202, with 441 fresh
cases reported in the last 24 hours.
The Strategic
Communication Group said 228 people died after catching the virus.
The northern county of Suceava is the epicenter of the virus outbreak with 1,487 cases, followed by the capital, Bucharest with...
