Cantacuzino family

A second shipment of 40,950 doses of COVID-19 vaccine arrived Tuesday morning at the Bucharest "Cantacuzino" Institute, the institute's spokesman, Colonel Romeo Feraru, announced.

The restrictions imposed to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus remain in force over Christmas and New Year's Eve, said, on Friday, President Klaus Iohannis. He visited the Cantacuzino National Institute for Medical-Military Research Development in Bucharest, the national center to receive and store the anti-COVID-19 vaccine doses.

Mircea Ioan Popa, a researcher with the Bucharest-based Cantacuzino Institute, said on Thursday that the vaccine against COVID-19, which is to be developed in Romania under a collaboration agreement between the OncoGen Centre and the Cantacuzino Institute, should preferably be intranasal instead of injectable. "We have to mention that leading this project are our colleagues in Timisoara.

Queen Elisabeth, Queen Maria, WWI hero Ecaterina Teodoroiu and feminist pioneer Alexandrina Cantacuzino were commemorated Wednesday evening, on the eve of March 8, the International Women's Day, at the Cotroceni National Museum in Bucharest, as part of a "Conversations at the Museum" programme.

Prince Constantin Brancoveanu, who ruled over Wallachia between 1688-1714, is considered to be one of the most important promoters of art, culture and Christianity in Wallachia, his heritage being what is now called the Brancovenesc style in art and architecture.