March 25, 2020

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Newsroom, 25.03.2020, 13:59

POLICE Romanian president Klaus Iohannis has today conveyed a message on
the occasion of Romanian Police Day calling on the policemen to be role models
of conduct and responsibility to apply the law with firmness and respect for human
dignity. In his message, Iohannis describes the Romanian police as an
institution with an essential role in maintaining public order guaranteeing the
safety of all the Romanian citizens. The Romanian president says quote even if
the enemy is an invisible one, the fight is as real as it can be and there is a
fight that we must win.

DRILL 82 sailors from Romania’s Navy are in the
Mediterranean to ensure the command of NATO anti-mine group SNMCMG-2, Standing
NATO Mines Countermeasures Group. Romanian warship Vice-Admiral Constantin
Balescu has so far travelled over 55 hundred miles since its departure from the
Romanian port of Constanta. The Romanian sailors are participating in enforcing
collective security measures on the southern flank of the North Atlantic
Alliance to prove Romania’s solidarity with its NATO partners. The Romanian war
vessel has so far conducted a series of maneuvers part of this mission together
with their counterparts from Germany, Turkey, Italy and Canada.

MEASURES Romania’s president Klaus Iohannis is today having talks with the
country’s Prime Minister Ludovic Orban, Interior Minister Marcel Vela, Finance
Minister Florin Citu, the country’s Defence Minister Nicolae Ciuca, the
Minister of Economy Virgil Popescu and the Minister of Labour and Social
Protection Violeta Alexandru on the measures taken in order to contain the
COVID-19 pandemic. Circulation around the city has been restricted and people
over 65 years are allowed to leave their homes only between 11 and 13 hours.
All those returning from abroad will be placed in home isolation or quarantined.

COVID-19 The pandemic continues to spread around the
world. Spain, Europe’s second affected country, on Tuesday requested help from
NATO for test kits and protection masks. Spain has registered a new record
death toll of 514 in the past 24 hours. The total death toll in this country comes
close to 3000 and the number of confirmed cases has exceeded 42 thousand. In
Italy, the number of deaths exceeded 68 hundred. Lombardy, in the north,
remains Italy’s most affected region. France has also reported 11 hundred
deaths while Germany 159. The virus has killed 780 people in the United States
and 19 hundred in Iran.

(translated by bill)