Mures

The Strategic Communication Group (GCS) reported on Friday that three deaths have been reported in patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the past 24 hours. The people who died - one man and two women - were admitted to hospitals in Mures and Sibiu, one in the 70-79 years old and two in the 80+ years old categories.

The Strategic Communication Group (GCS) informs that a number of 184 cases of persons infected with the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has been registered on Romania's territory until Tuesday. "Other 16 new cases of infection have been registered, as follows: 7 in Iasi, 2 in Suceava, 2 in Neamt and one each in Ialomita, Mures, Botosani, Bistrita Nasaud and Vrancea Counties.

A 21-year-old man and a 33-year-old woman are the latest cases of infection with the novel coronavirus, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) informed on Thursday. According to the quoted source, the man from Mures county who works as a truck driver, had traveled to Italy between 4 and 6 March. On 10 March he called the 112 emergency number accusing symptoms fitting the case definition.

Romania is the largest natural gas producer in Easter Europe, with an average natural gas production in recent years of about 11 billion cubic meters, the Oil and Gas Employers' Federation (FPPG) stated. "Today, 13 September, we are celebrating the Day of the Romanian Gas Worker.

One of the most reputed minstrels of the central County of Mures, Rafila Moldovan from the Idicel de Padure village, who has turned her home into a museum clustering the most important ethnographic assets of the Mures village, was awarded the "Living Human Treasure" title on behalf of the Ministry of Culture and National Identity (MCIN).

Romania's Environment Minister Gratiela Gavrilescu announced on Tuesday that she is to issue a special order this week that would allow the killing of bears and wolves deemed dangerous, despite opposition from activists.

Gheorghe Funar, running for president as an independent candidate, accused the Social Democrat Party (PSD) and the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) - both in the ruling coalition - of having a secret pact.