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Another patient who was hospitalized at the "Matei Bals" Institute in the ward affected by Friday's fire died, the Health Ministry reported on Tuesday. "The Health Ministry was informed, this morning, about a death among the patients who were in Ward V of the 'Matei Bals' National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Bucharest during the January 29 fire," the quoted source said.

The vaccination against COVID-19 of the personnel of the Ministry of Interior (MAI) working in the first line started on Friday, at the Vaccination Centre of the Emergency Hospital "Prof. Dr. Dimitrie Gerota" in Bucharest.

Interim Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca on Monday said that the authorities have made the necessary preparations to launch the anti-COVID vaccination campaign starting with December 27 and urged all citizens to trust this approach. "We have everything we need so that we can start the vaccination campaign on December 27.

Prince Mihai Dimitrie Sturdza, historian and diplomat, died in Paris at the age of 86, Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) Director General Filip-Lucian Iorga-Barbulescu announced on Saturday evening on his Facebook page.

The Strategic Communication Group announced on Friday two more cases of infection with the novel coronavirus, confirmed in two men aged 50 and 62, respectively. According to the quoted source, the 50-year-old man is a doctor, namely the manager of the "Dimitrie Gerota" Hospital and the 62-year-old man is the patient of a gastroenterologist confirmed as being case number 30.

The Strategic Communication Group (GCS) has reported another case of the novel COVID-19 infection in Romania in a 54-year-old woman. According to GCS, the woman came into direct contact with a patient already admitted to the Dimitrie Gerota Hospital with the same infection.

The Dimitrie Gerota Hospital of Bucharest went into quarantine Wednesday, with the inpatients and the staff staying there for 14 days, according to head of the Emergency Management Department (DSU) Raed Arafat.