ROMANIA

217,216

Total Cases

6,574

Total Deaths

155,630

Total Recovered

55,012

Total Active Cases

0

New Deaths

0

New Cases

via romania-insider10/26/2020

Top doctors warn Romanians of Covid-19 pandemic's impact on winter holidays - Romania-Insider.com

The issue of the new coronavirus will not be solved until the spring or summer of next year, and the public need to learn to live with it and follow the prevention rules, Raed Arafat, the head of Romania’s Emergency Situations Department (DSU), said in an intervention at television station...

via news.bloombergtax10/20/2020

Romania MOF Seeks Comments on Draft Ordinance to Implement Tax Relief Measures Due to Coronavirus - Bloomberg Tax

The Romanian Ministry of Public Finance Oct. 16 opened a consultation on a draft emergency ordinance to implement tax relief measures due to the coronavirus pandemic as part of the general consolidated budget. The ordinance includes measures that would: 1) authorize tax installment payments for taxes due and unpaid following the end of the declared state of emergency for up to 12 months; 2) clarify conditions for installment payments, as well as waivers, penalties, and interest related to installment payments; 3) provide exemptions from specific tax through Dec. 31 for taxpayers engaged in certain activities; and 4) allow taxpayers, associations, and employers to deduct expenses incurred for legally required coronavirus testing. Comments are due Oct. 26. [Romania, Ministry of Public Finance, 10/16/20]

via euractiv10/20/2020

Belgium to scrap COVID-19 tests for asymptomatic - EURACTIV

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about how a citizen's initiative to reform Finland’s abortion laws has gathered more than 50,000 signatures within a few months, Poland transforming its biggest stadium into an emergency field hospital, and so much more.

via news.yahoo10/19/2020

Romanian capital makes masks compulsory in public at all times - Yahoo News

Romania's capital Bucharest closed schools, restaurants and theatres from Tuesday and widened the compulsory use of face masks to all outdoor spaces across the city as infection rates soared. The number of new daily coronavirus infections in Romania has risen by about 4,000 over the past week, taking

via romania-insider10/15/2020

(P) Virtual Economist event: “EUROPE'S LANDSCAPE IN THE SHADOW OF THE PANDEMIC Romania: Transformation - Recovery - Resilience” - October 22nd 2020 - Romania-Insider.com

While the Covid-19 pandemic has drastically reversed any sense of economic and social “normality”, governments and international institutions are increasingly focusing on easing the economic impact of the lockdown and, at the same time, defining and achieving a “new normal”. The EU...

via menafn10/14/2020

Romania: Coronavirus infections reach 4000 - MENAFN.COM

Romania registered another 4,016 reported coronavirus infections on Wednesday, October 14, taking it the highest count of cases reported in a 24-hour span since the outburst, declared the authorities.

Another concerning statistics officially declared was that the number of critically sick patients surpassed 600 for nine straight days, coming at a rec

via romania-insider10/13/2020

Romania's Orthodox Church lashes at Govt. for banning pilgrimages over COVID-19 fears - Romania-Insider.com

Romania's Orthodox Church had an unusually harsh reaction after the Government banned the largest pilgrimages in Romania due to the growing number of COVID-19 cases. Prime minister Ludovic Orban announced on Monday that the Saint Demetrius pilgrimage in Bucharest would not take place at the end...

via romania-insider10/26/2020

Romanian real estate investor develops new standard that certifies office building resilience to pandemic - Romania-Insider.com

Liviu Tudor, one of Romania's biggest office owners, has developed a new standard that certifies the resilience of office buildings to a pandemic or similar risks. He has launched the IMMUNE Building Standard open-source, aiming to help office building owners worldwide regain their tenants' trust...

via bigrapidsnews10/20/2020

The Latest: NFL counts 8 new positive tests among players - The Pioneer

The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: ___ The Italian swim team's preparations for the Tokyo Olympics are in crisis with 10 more athletes testing positive for the novel coronavirus. The Italian Swimming Federation says world champions Simona Quadarella and Gabriele Detti are among those who contracted COVID-19 at a high-altitude training camp in Livigno in the Italian Alps. Olympic champion Federica Pellegrini was already at home in isolation after testing positive last week. The total number of swimmers on the national team to test positive is at least 13. The others are: Federico Burdisso, Martina Rita Caramignoli, Marco De Tullio, Stefano Di Cola, Sara Gailli, Edoardo Giorgetti, Matteo Lamberti, Alessio Proietti Colonna, Simone Sabbioni and Alice Mizzau. The federation says all of the swimmers are asymptomatic and that no staff members have tested positive. The training camp was suspended and the team was placed in quarantine. ___ The Mountain West football game between New Mexico and Colorado State has been canceled due to COVID-19. The Lobos were scheduled to play the Rams on Saturday in Fort Collins, Colorado, but there's a prevalence of the virus in the New Mexico county of Bernalillo. The league said in a statement released Tuesday that "in accordance with state guidelines, the University of New Mexico is unable to participate in the scheduled football game." There is no plan to reschedule the game. ___ The NFL and the Players Association say there were eight new confirmed positive tests among players and 11 new confirmed positives among other personnel in the latest round of testing for the novel coronavirus. In all, 15,167 tests were administered last week...

via romania-insider10/19/2020

Two of Romania's most visible health experts during the COVID-19 pandemic join race for a seat in the Parliament - Romania-Insider.com

Two of the most visible and highly cited health specialists in Romania during the COVID-19 pandemic have decided to run for a seat in the Parliament, on the lists of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). They are Alexandru Rafila, the president of the Romanian Society of Microbiology and Romania’s...

via emerging-europe10/16/2020

Romanian carmaker's decision to make Europe's cheapest electric car in China marks end of 'low-cost' era - Emerging Europe

Romanian carmaker Dacia has revealed its first fully-electric vehicle, the Dacia Spring, which it claims will be the cheapest electric car on the European market when sales begin next year. However, the car will not be made at Dacia’s plant in Romania, but at parent company Renault’s facility in Shiyan, China. The Dacia Spring is […]

via reuters10/15/2020

CEE MARKETS-Most currencies fall as fears of second coronavirus wave weigh - Reuters

Most Central European currencies slipped on Thursday, as mounting worries about a second wave of the coronavirus sapped risk appetite across the globe. The region has seen soaring infections, with the Czech Republic, which has Europe's fastest growing infection rates, reporting...

via romania-insider10/13/2020

Romania extends state of alert, bans wedding events, removes some countries from "yellow list" - Romania-Insider.com

Romania’s National Committee for Emergency Situations – CNSU proposed on Tuesday, October 13, the extension of the state of alert in the country due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Government will take the final decision in this sense. Thus, the state of alert will likely be extended by another...

via romania-insider10/13/2020

Bucharest is close to entering “red scenario” as number of new COVID-19 cases in Romania remains high - Romania-Insider.com

Romania’s capital Bucharest is close to entering the “red scenario” due to the high number of new COVID-19 infection cases recorded in the last 14 days. Meanwhile, the number of new cases remains high in the country, with over 3,100 people testing positive in the last 24 hours, according to...

via eureporter.co10/20/2020

Commission approves €103 million Romanian guarantee scheme to support trade credit insurance market in coronavirus outbreak - EU Reporter

The European Commission has approved, under EU state aid rules, a €103 million (approximately RON 500m) Romanian guarantee scheme to support the trade credit insurance market in the context of the coronavirus outbreak. Trade credit insurance protects companies supplying goods and services against the risk of non-payment by their clients. Given the economic impact of […]

via metro.us10/19/2020

Romanian capital makes masks compulsory in public at all times - Metro US

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via voanews10/17/2020

Finger Pointed at Swiss Yodeling Concert as COVID Superspreader Event - Voice of America

The coronavirus pandemic has not deterred the Swiss from sending yodels echoing across their mountain valleys, but a concert attended by 600 people is believed to have made one canton a European virus hot spot. At the late September yodeling event in the rural Schwyz canton, people in the audience were asked to maintain social distancing, but mask-wearing was not required. "We can't do anything about what happened with this yodeling group.

via romania-insider10/16/2020

Real number of daily COVID-19 cases in Romania is 10 times higher than reported, health expert says - Romania-Insider.com

The real number of daily COVID-19 cases in Romania is actually ten times higher than the official figures, according to Alexandru Rafila, the president of the Romanian Society of Microbiology. For example, he said that in a day with 4,000 new coronavirus cases officially diagnosed in Romania, the...

via wkow10/14/2020

The Latest: Spain 1st EU nation to reach 900,000 virus cases - WKOW

MADRID — Spain has become the first European Union nation to reach 900,000 infections after adding more than 11,000 confirmed cases. Spain’s health ministry say it has confirmed 908,056 infections since the beginning of the pandemic, which is seventh in the world. France is next in the EU with more than 750,000 cases, although the

via romania-insider10/13/2020