Georgiana Tanasescu

Minister of Health Nelu Tataru said that another 280 intensive care beds will be operationalised in 24 hospitals in the next period.

As many as 5,837 new cases of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 in Romania were recorded in the last 24 hours, following 20,790 tests nationwide, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS), the official novel coronavirus communication task force, reported on Sunday. These are cases of patients that had not previously tested positive.

President Klaus Iohannis said efforts to increase the capacity of Intensive Care Units will be intensified.

Prime Minister Ludovic Orban had a meeting on Thursday, in a videoconference system, with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, occasion on which the Polish Development Fund model was presented, with the talks on this topic to be continued at the level of expert teams of Romania and Poland.

Approximately 38,200 people, Romanian and foreign citizens, with over 22,400 means of transport, of which 15,800 trucks, passed through the border checkpoints of the entire country in the last 24 hours.

President Klaus Iohannis was ordered today a RON 5,000 fine by the Board of Directors of the National Council for Combating Discrimination (CNCD) for the offense of discrimination and ethnicity/nationality-based violation of the right to dignity.

President Klaus Iohannis stated, on Tuesday, that from May 15, once the state of alert comes into force, the wearing of protection masks in closed spaces becomes mandatory, the maintaining of distance between people and hand hygiene are also mandatory. "Unfortunately, the COVID-19 epidemic is still among us. It's not the time to relax too much.

A number of 231 new cases of persons infected with the novel coronavirus have been registered in Romania since the latest update, the total number of cases thus reaching 15,362 , the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) informed on Sunday. From among the persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus, 7,051 were declared recovered and discharged from hospital.

National independence and the institution of the monarchy remain in the collective consciousness as "decisive steps" towards the strengthening of the modern, prosperous Romanian state, respected in Europe, Prime Minister Ludovic Orban said on Sunday on the occasion of Independence Day and Royalty Day .

Three more people infected with the novel coronavirus have died in Romania, taking the number of COVID-19 fatalities to 527, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) announced on Thursday. The latest victims are two men and a woman, aged between 56 and 82. AGERPRES (RO - author: Roberto Stan, editor Georgiana Tanasescu; EN - author: Simona Klodnischi, editor: Simona Iacob)