Andreea Rotaru

The Parliament plenum adopted on Monday evening the articles of the 2021 State Budget Bill; the annexes thereto, including the one with the budgets of the main budget managing entities - ministries, authorities, agencies and other institutions - are next for debate.

The budget presented by Prime Minister Florin Citu is a disgrace to Romania, is in breach of the law, and the Social Democrat MPs will not vote for it, Chairman of the opposition Social Democratic Party (PSD) Marcel Ciolacu said today in the Parliament plenary.

The Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (AUR) is requesting the Romanian state's authorities, the European commissioner Adina Valean and other representatives of Romania in various European forums to oppose the introduction of the COVID passport, showing that this measure is "discriminatory, anti-democratic and dangerous for the free movement of people, one of the pillars which the European Uni

Prime Minister Florin Citu said on Friday that Romania has a good strategy for preventing infections with the novel coronavirus and does not allow itself to break the rules, noting that if the number of infections increases, some easing off will have to be "taken back". "It's true; I have seen myself people in the streets who started to relax, to stop wearing masks, which we can't allow.

As many as 3,761 new cases of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 have been recorded in the past 24 hours, the Strategic Communication Group reports on Friday. These are cases that have not previously had a positive test, the GCS states. By Friday, 795,732 cases of people infected with the novel coronavirus had been confirmed in Romania. Of these, 736,020 were declared cured.

President Klaus Iohannis had a talk in video-conference system with his Estonian counterpart, Kersti Kaljulaid, context in which the Romanian president accepted the latter's invitation to pay a state visit to the Republic of Estonia in June, if the epidemiological conditions allows, informs the Presidential Administration.

As many as 3,923 new cases of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 have been recorded in the past 24 hours, the Strategic Communication Group reports on Thursday. These are cases that have not previously tested positive, the GCS states. As of Thursday, 791,971 cases of people infected with the novel coronavirus had been confirmed in Romania. Of these, 733,616 were declared cured.

As many as 3,337 new cases of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 have been recorded in the past 24 hours, the Strategic Communication Group reported on Wednesday. These are cases that have not previously had a positive test, the GCS states. As of Wednesday, 788,048 cases of people infected with the novel coronavirus had been confirmed in Romania. Of these, 731,049 were declared cured.

The SARS-CoV-2 variant, lineage B.1.1.7 is already spreading in half of the country's counties and there is a high probability of covering the entire territory of Romania in the near future, the National Institute of Public Health indicated on Tuesday, in the epidemiological analysis of the first 136 cases of COVID-19 in Romania confirmed with new variants of the virus.

A number of 1,634 new cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection have been registered in the last 24 hours following 10,000 tests performed nationwide, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) reports on Monday. These are all cases that have not previously tested positive, the GCS states. As many as 781,329 cases of people infected with the novel coronavirus had been confirmed in Romania as of Sunday.