Arad

Nearly 20 migrants from Afghanistan and Nepal have been discovered in the last 24 hours while trying to leave Romania illegally through Arad and Bihor counties, hidden in freight trucks leaving for the Schengen area. According to a press release sent on Tuesday by the Arad Border Police, the migrants were discovered at the Varsand, Nadlac II and Bors border crossing points.

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.

The strategic communication group of the Romanian government announced four new deaths of patients with Covid-19 this morning, including one Bulgarian citizen, France Press reported. A 62-year-old Bulgarian citizen who was a truck driver died in the northwestern district of Arad.

Another 6 persons infected with the novel coronavirus have died, the COVID-19 death toll thus reaching 723, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) informs on Friday. It is about three men and two women from Suceava county and one woman from Arad county. AGERPRES (RO - editor: Karina Olteanu; EN - editor: Rodica State)

The National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management (INHGA) has issued a code yellow warning for floods and overruns valid until midnight in eight hydrographic basins in Transylvania and Crisana.

Dismissed Prime Minister Viorica Dancila stated on Saturday, in Arad county, that the "traitors" from the Social Democratic Party (PSD) who will participate, on Monday, in the vote in Parliament for the Orban Government, "should go to the scissors party the next day" 'and not be with the Social Democrats anymore'.

Hungarian health authorities have quarantined a hospital in Mako, southeast Hungary, after declaring a measles epidemic, and warned on Thursday that the virus might have come from over the border in Romania, where there has been an outbreak in recent months.

The DIICOT (Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism) prosecutors on Monday conducted 31 home searches in Ilfov and Arad counties and in Bucharest municipality, in an action aimed at dismantling an organised criminal ring that was seeking to embezzle large sums of money from SIF Banat-Crisana and SIF Muntenia SA Bucharest.