Bucharest

Romania is a green oasis on the world's air pollution map and is doing very well compared to other countries in the region, chief commissioner of the National Environmental Guard, Octavian Berceanu, said on Friday. Berceanu announced that a Regulation will be developed in the next period on the location of air quality sensors for greater data accuracy.

The authorities' mandating the check of the Covid digital certificate at hotel reception desks will be inevitable if the 4th pandemic wave escalates, the president of the Romanian Hotel Industry Federation (FIHR) Calin Ile told AGERPRES on Thursday.

Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu on Thursday welcomed Issam Tawfiq Masalha, the approved ambassador of Palestine in Bucharest, in order to receive copies of the accreditation letters, hailing the excellent developments in the bilateral relationship and reiterating Romania's growing interest in strengthening sectoral relations with Palestine.

Placards read: "A lot of gender ideology", "Houses for everyone", "Queers against capitalism", "Our rights are not negotiable", "Stop using us for capitalism's disasters". Banner reads: "Diamonds stronger than gold" [e.n. - AUR, meaning gold, is the Romanian-language acronym for the Alliance for the Union of Romanians, a right-wing parliamentary formation].

For the first time, Romania's national team in debating for students, coordinated by the Romanian Association for Debate, Oratory and Rhetoric (ARDOR) has ranked in the first eight of the 74 teams in the world, at the World Schools Debate Championship, taking place online between July 25 and August 5.

The modern industrial stock in Romania exceeded 5.4 million square meters, the highest demand (66 pct) being drawn in Bucharest, shows the most recent report drawn up by a real estate consultancy company.

The Commission for the authorization of requests for public gatherings in Bucharest approved the carrying out of the "Bucharest Pride" 2021 march on Victoriei Avenue on August 14, with a maximum legal number of 500 participants. "Bucharest City Hall [PMB] and the ACCEPT Association have reached an agreement on the organization of 'Bucharest Pride' 2021.

President Klaus Iohannis visited the Comana Natural Park on Wednesday, underscoring the importance of actions to combat climate change, as well as the need to protect the environment. "We need to be aware of the utmost importance of actions to combat climate change, and at the same time we have to protect the environment.

The last victim of a trench collapse accident occurred around 16:00 hrs at a building site near the National Library in Bucharest has been found, the Bucharest-Ilfov Inspectorate for Emergency Situations announced on Monday evening. Efforts are underway to free the man. Five workers of building contractor S.C.

Approximately 750,000 persons are vaccinated against COVID-19 in Bucharest, Capital Prefect Alin Stoica said on Friday. He pointed out in a statement to the press that about 750,000 vaccinated persons out of a statistical total of 2,205,000 means round 30 percent of the resident population.