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\nThe total number of people killed by the new coronavirus in Romania has reached
\n215, the Strategic Communication Group announced on Wednesday. The number of
\nthe infected currently stands at 4761 after 344 new cases have been reported.
\n528 out of the people infected have been declared cured and left hospitals but
\n162 patients are in the ER units for treatment. 651 Romanians have been
\ninfected with the new virus abroad while 37 Romanian nationals have lost their
\nlives abroad since the beginning of the crisis. The country’s president Klaus
\nIohannis has again called on citizens to observe the measures imposed and stay
\nat home during the Easter holidays adding that he will be doing the same, spend
\nthe holidays at home with wife and no guests. Health minister Nelu Tataru said
\nthat Romania is yet to reach the peak of the pandemic, which is most likely to
\nhappen late this month. Also on Wednesday, with a landslide majority, the
\nSenate in Romania passed a draft law providing for granting survivor’s benefits
\nand other compensations to family members of the medical personnel who lost
\ntheir lives in the fight against the virus. <\/p>\n
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RESIGNATION EU science chief Mauro Ferrari has resigned over the
\nresponse of the EU bloc to the coronavirus outbreak. Ferrari, who took over in
\nJanuary for a four-year term, has invoked the institutional resistance and
\nbureaucratic infighting within the EU complex structures to his proposal for a
\nwide scale scientific programme to combat COvid-19. EU governments and
\ninstitutions have been accused of chaotic response to the pandemic, failing to
\nrespond quickly and not working together, Reuters reports. On Wednesday, for
\nexample, European finance ministers failed to
\nreach an agreement on a common relief package to counteract the effects of the
\ncoronavirus pandemic. In another development, the EU prepared a 15.6 billion
\neuro plan aimed at assisting partner countries in fighting the pandemic. The
\nmoney will benefit African countries, countries included in the vicinity
\npolicy, like the Western Balkans, Middle East and North Africa, countries in
\nAsia the Pacific area, Latin America and the Caribbean <\/p>\n
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EVENT The 15th edition of
\nBookfest International Book Fair due to take place in Bucharest between the 27th
\nand the 31st of May has been cancelled. The decision comes after an
\nannouncement by president Klaus Iohannis that the state of emergency will be
\nextended for another 30 days, until mid-May. Japan was supposed to be the guest
\ncountry of the fair this year. Bookfest is one of the many major cultural
\nevents cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak in Romania. <\/p>\n
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COVID
\n‘The Covid-19 crisis
\nhas pushed us to rethink connectivity in all dimensions, on both sides of the
\nAtlantic. The free movement of people, goods and ideas – the nerves that kept
\nour world in motion – has started facing baffling setbacks. These times of
\nrestraints and uncertainty may stem democracies from thriving and may bring
\ninevitable if temporary limitations upon our democratic societies. Our
\ndemocratic values, no matter how deeply rooted in our common thinking, will be
\ninevitably challenged by the temporary physical limits put in place in the face
\nof this invisible enemy. It is our mission to step up efforts nationally and at
\nEU level to reassure Europe’s citizens. We must act to protect the social
\nfabric of our built-in democratic interdependence, safeguard the freedom of
\nmovement of essential goods and provide real prospects for resuming the freedom
\nof movement of people as soon as possible’, Romanian Minister Bogdan Aurescu wrote
\nin an article carried by the EU Observer. We recall that the number of people
\ninfected with the new coronavirus the world over has exceeded 1.4 million and
\n82 thousand people have so far lost their lives. 300 thousand people have been
\ncured. Five countries have more than 100 thousand cases, the USA, Spain, Italy,
\nFrance and Germany. 1939 people have died in the past 24 hours on the US
\nterritory, the highest daily toll registered since the beginning of the
\noutbreak. 11 Romanian doctors and four nurses are helping their colleagues in
\nLombardy, northern Italy for a period of 14 days. <\/p>\n
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