Ministry of Home Affairs

The president of the Colectiv GTG 3010 Association, Eugen Iancu, announces that he will protest, on Sunday evening, in front of the headquarters of the Interior Ministry (MAI), adding that Health Minister Vlad Voiculescu will have to be "questioned" regarding the situation in the Health system only some months after taking over the mandate.

There will be a gradual relaxation of the lockdown measures after the state of emergency ends on May 15, Interior Minister Marcel Vela announced on Monday, as he presented Military Ordinance No. 10 that modifies the personal movement schedule for people aged over 65 and extends the suspension of flights connecting Romania to 13 countries.

"Currently, 27 employees of the Interior Ministry officials tested positive for COVID-19. One of them has already recovered. I cannot say how they got infected, since they are from different areas and from different units of the Ministry of Interior.

The regulation, passed on March 15, and published today in the Official Gazette, states that the Ministry of the Interior, in agreement with the Ministry of Health, may temporarily restrict or prohibit the movement of persons in public places.

An Indian minister faced a severe backlash on Jan. 3 after he criticized women for dressing "like westerners" at a New Year's eve celebration where a mob allegedly carried out a series of sex assaults.

The death toll from a collapsed flyover in eastern India rose to 25 on April 1, after emergency workers toiled through the night to find any remaining survivors trapped under huge slabs of concrete and metal girders.