JUNE 30, 2021 UPDATE
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Newsroom, 30.06.2021, 20:35
COMMEMORATION Romania’s Parliament convened in a solemn session on Wednesday to
commemorate the victims of the Pogrom in Iasi, north-eastern Romania, 80 years
ago. At that time over 13 thousand Jews were tortured and killed by the pro-Nazi
regime led by Ion Antonescu. Speaking in the opening of the event, the
president of the Romanian Senate Anca Dragu said, quote: ‘This is a moment of
introspection and reflection, a moment when we directly assume this tragic
event in the history of our country but at the same time, a moment when we become aware of the historical consequences of xenophobic and racist attitudes’. In
turn, Romania’s Prime Minister Florin Citu has described the Iasi pogrom as a ‘dark
page’ in Romania’s history and underlined the idea of assuming the
past. Also attending the Parliament session, Musi-Mihail Cernea, one of the
survivors, recollected the horrific moments 80 years ago. President Klaus Iohannis Wednesday awarded
the Faithful Service National Order, in the rank of Knight, to Musi-Mihail
Cernea, Jehuda Evron and Moshe Yassur, survivors of the Iaşi Pogrom of June
1941. The 3 were decorated as a show of respect for the suffering experience
during WW2, for their high moral standards throughout their lives and their
efforts to preserve the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, a tragedy that
must never repeat, reads a news release issued by the Presidential Administration.
FOOTBALL Romania’s Football Federation has announced the line-up of the
Under-23 side to represent the country at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Romania
has been included in group B and will be up against Honduras on July 22nd,
South Korea three days later, and New Zealand on July 28th. Romania
has qualified for the Tokyo Olympics after having played in the semi-finals of
the European Under-21 Championship held in Italy and San Marino in 2019.
TRANSMITTER Radiocom, the company
broadcasting Radio Romania International’s programmes, has announced a new series
of repair works carried out on a transmitter in Tiganesti, close to Bucharest. The
company is stepping up efforts to mend the transmitter and render it operational
by August this year. Unfortunately, the defective transmitter is presently affecting
the RRI English transmissions beamed to New York, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo
and Australia, the transmissions in French to Montreal and Central Africa, in
Russian to Moscow and Novosibirsk, in German to Berlin, in Spanish to Mexico,
Madrid, Buenos Aires and Brazil and in Chinese to Beijing.
CERTIFICATE A web page where Romanian and foreign citizens can obtain digital
COVID-19 certificates is to become available starting July 1st, the
Special Telecommunication Service (STS) has announced. The user-friendly application,
which is called certificate-covid.gov.ro, allows people to get the certificate
in less than 10 steps. According to the institution, its experts who developed
the entire information system, have made the latest optimizations in accordance
with the provisions of the ordinance endorsed by the government in Bucharest.
The Covid certificate, which allows for the free movement inside the EU has a
one-year validity for those who got the vaccine, and only a couple of hours for
those who took rapid or PCR tests. 52 new infections have been reported in the
past 24 hours in Romania after 26 thousand tests have been carried out. 33,786
people have been killed by the virus in Romania since the beginning of the
pandemic.
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