Arad

Bucharest, July 16 /Agerpres/ - PNL (National Liberal Party) leader Ludovic Orban on Friday said in Arad that he has decided to run for a new term because he has the ability to lead the party to new elections. "I am not running for the presidency of the National Liberal Party, for a new term, just because I want to.

"Condition d'elevation" (State of Elevation) by Isabelle Prim and "Au nom de la terre" (In the Name of the Land) by Edouard Bergeon are the winning films in the young talents competitive section of the French Film Festival in Romania.

Prime Minister Florin Citu said on Thursday that moving forward he will deal with cutting through red tape so that the procedures for the implementation of projects under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) will be faster and within five years the money received will be spent.

The immunisation of the population with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine will start in Romania on February 15, and to that end 180 new vaccination offices will open, according to the National COVID-19 Vaccination Coordination Committee (CNCAV).

The voter turnout nationally in the parliamentary elections stood, on Sunday at 16:00 hrs, at 22.43 pct, meaning 4,080,404 voters, according to the data announced by the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC). In the urban environment, 2,208,232 voters turned out to the polls, while in the rural environment there were 1,872,172. A number of 49,827 voters cast their ballots using the mobile urn.

Thirteen more persons infected with the novel coronavirus have died, the COVID-19 death toll thus reaching 854, the Strategic Communication group (GCS) informs on Wednesday. The latest fatalities are nine men and four women aged between 31 and 89 from Bucharest (2) and the counties of Neamt (1), Alba (1), Arad (1), Vaslui (1), Sibiu (1), Mures (2), Galati (2), Mehedinti (1) and Bacau (1).

They participate in volunteering activities, conduct campaigns to help fight the new coronavirus and raise funds for hospitals, they get involved to support the medical staff, but also for donations of medicines and equipment. They are winners of important beauty contests, and now they are trying to help their peers.

Multiple disturbing anonymous testimonies and videos from hospital personnel paint an almost desperate situation: doctors and nurses are forced to interact with sick patients without any protective equipment, as the materials they need are either withheld by management or non-existent.

Several foreign resident physicians, Italian, French but also from other countries are working at the County Clinical Hospital (SCJU) in western Arad, during the coronavirus epidemic, some being Italians, even from the seriously affected areas. by COVID-19, who chose to care for patients admitted to the Arad hospital.

Culture Minister Bogdan Gheorghiu said on Wednesday that the duty of the public institutions and administrations is to make sure that the names of those who made history and sketched up Romania's national destiny will not be forgotten by children, adding that a Romania of culture is a country of partnerships, increased tolerance and acceptance.