Andreea Rotaru

Minister of Health Ioana Mihaila had a meeting on Friday with the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakides, in which context the former transmitted that Romania continues the efforts to increase the number of COVID-19 vaccinated people.

Eastbound traffic is halted Friday morning on the Bucharest - Constanta A2 motorway near the city of Medgidia due to a multi-vehicle collision that triggered a pileup of 40 cars; 17 people, five children included, were injured and one victim was trapped, the Infotrafic Center of the General Inspectorate of the Romanian Police informs. The red intervention plan has been activated.

The Giurgiu Tribunal admitted on Thursday the request for conditional release from prison submitted by the former leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), Liviu Dragnea, after he completed two years of his three and a half year sentence received in 2019 in the case of the fictive employments at the General Directorate for Social Assistance and Child Protection (DGASPC).

Traffic is restricted on Thursday, in the area of Charles de Gaulle Square in central Bucharest, after an American helicopter participating in a training flight for Aviation Day, landed in a roundabout. As a result of the incident, two cars and two lighting poles were damaged, according to the representatives of the Road Brigade.

As many as 14 deaths - 8 men and 6 women - in SARS-CoV-2 patients have been reported in the last 24 hours, including ten from 2020 and early this year that were entered in the database by the public health directorates at the request of the Health Ministry, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) informs today.

Two deaths have been reported on Monday in patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the last 24 hours, according to the Strategic Communication Group (GCS). According to GCS, in the last 24 hours, the INSP reported two deaths (two men) of patients infected with the novel coronavirus, hospitalized in Bacau and Satu Mare.

Chamber of Deputies Speaker Ludovic Orban urges Moldovan citizens to go to the polls in large numbers on Sunday, "because the democratic future of the Republic of Moldova depends on this vote." "I was glad to see the mobilisation of those in the diaspora, who, as in Romania, understood the important role they play in determining the fate of their country.

Deputy Prime Minister Dan Barna on Sunday urged the citizens of the Republic of Moldova in Romania to go to the polls for the election of the future Parliament in Chisinau and said that Moldova needs a parliamentary majority and a government capable of firmly implementing the reforms needed to continue the country's path to prosperity and Europe.

Foreign Affairs Minister Bogdan Aurescu will participate in Brussels on Monday in the meeting of Foreign Affairs Ministers from EU member states (Foreign Affairs Council - FAC), a meeting debating geopolitical aspects related to the new digital technologies, EU's Strategic Compass and the situation in Ethiopia, as well as recent developments in Afghanistan and Lebanon.

The Strategic Communication Group (GCS) on Sunday informed that in the past 24 hours only one death was reported in patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. According to GCS, in the last 24 hours, the National Public Health Institute (INSP) reported one death, a patient (a woman) infected with the novel coronavirus, hospitalised in Constanta.