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The first 24 centres to administer in Romania the one-shot COVID-19 vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) will be available in 19 counties and in Bucharest City, and another 20 of them will open at several hospitals nationwide, senior official with the Health Ministry Andrei Baciu said on Thursday.

43.8 percent of the total cases of persons infected with the novel coronavirus were registered in the past 14 days in the counties of Suceava, Botosani, Arad, Bihor and Bucharest city, according to a report of the National Centre for Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases with the National Institute of Public Health (INSP).

A number of 158 persons infected with the Sars-CoV-2 virus have been confirmed so far on Romania's territory, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) informs.

Three earthquakes were reported in Romania last night, according to BTA, Gandul daily.

The first 2.4 magnitude earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km at 00.01 Romanian (and Bulgarian) time in the city of Brasov. 

Almost 800 people asked Romania for international protection in the first half of 2019 according to the country's General Immigration Inspectorate (IGI).

President Klaus Iohannis on Wednesday attended in Constanta the celebrations occasioned by the Romanian Navy Day, according to a press release of the Presidential Administration.

The head of the state attended the festivities organized on the Constanta coast in front of the Fleet Command headquarters.

Hungary has started marking the route of a future fence along the border with Romania to prevent refugees and migrants from entering the country, according to media reports.

The authorities in Bucharest are waiting for more details before they respond to Budapest's announcement that it is to begin installing fences along the border with Romania to prevent refugees and migrants from entering the country.