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NATO - Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary-General of NATO, has been diagnosed with shingles and will therefore hold talks scheduled in Germany and Romania only remotely, Reuters cited a NATO official as saying on Thursday. Stoltenberg had been set to meet German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin on Thursday and attend a meeting with the leaders of Romania, Poland and Hungary in Bucharest, as part of the Bucharest Nine Format (B9) on Friday. The Bucharest Nine Format is an initiative launched by the Romanian President Klaus Iohannis and Polish President Andrej Duda, attended by the nine NATO countries on the Alliance’s eastern flank.
DEFICIT – Romania’s trade balance deficit stood at around 10 billion euros in the first four months of this year, by almost 3 billion euros more than the one registered between January 1st and April 30th, 2021, according to data made public today by the National Institute of Statistics. In April 2022 ex ....
Covid-19–Ro – 26,466 new cases of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 have been registered in Romania in 24 hours along with 139 deaths, the authorities informed on Thursday. The highest number of infected people since the beginning of the pandemic - 40,018 - was registered on February 1. On the other hand, the National Public Health Institute in Romania reports that, in the week January 31 - February 6, 51.4% of the confirmed COVID-19 cases were registered in unvaccinated persons. Of the vaccinated people, 43% got contaminated either immediately after immunization or more than six months after the last dose. More than three-quarters (78.2%) of the deaths reported were in unvaccinated people. Since the onset of the pandemic, 86% of all deaths have been in people over 60, and 54.6% of deaths in the male population. According to the National Public Health Institute 93.3% of the deceased had at least one associated comorbidity. All in all, since the outbreak of the pandemic, two y ....
COVID-19 ROMANIA - 16,610 new cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection were reported on Wednesday in Romania in addition to 58 related fatalities, of which 2 were prior to the reference period, the Group for Strategic Communication has announced. Half of Romania's counties are in the so-called 'red zone' with a high incidence rate. Since the start of the pandemic, over 1.9 million Romanians got infected with COVID-19 and some 60,000 died to the virus. Against the backdrop of the anti-vaxx campaign fuelled by part of the media, a number of politicians and other public figures, Romania has the second-lowest national vaccination rates at EU level after Bulgaria.
COVID-19 WORLD - The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has warned global leaders that the coronavirus pandemic is far from over. The WHO official warned against the misleading assumption that the Omicron strain is mild and thus less threaten ....
ENERGY The Executive in Bucharest on Wednesday made it compulsory to recalculate erroneously issued energy bills by non-compliance with mechanisms of capping and subsidies. Suppliers have been given 15 days to operate the necessary changes penalty-free, Energy Minister Virgil Popescu has announced adding that in order to prevent any possible abuses, for the duration of the emergency ordinance, it is illegal to go off the grid. The government has approved a memorandum under which Romania will carry on its technical and financial assistance to the Romanian-speaking ex-soviet Republic of Moldova in order to support the latter s efforts to join the European Union. This support has recently materialized into a non-reimbursable financial aid of 100 million euros.
PROGRAM Authorities in Romania on Wednesday launched the National Program for Combating Cancer in an event attended by president Klaus Ioh ....