MEASURES The Romanian government is presently debating a draft emergency
\nordinance aimed at extending the right to technical unemployment compensations
\nto other categories of workers, which weren’t comprised in the initial project.
\nSo, lawyers, art impresarios and people with income coming from many activities
\nmay opt from only one activity, which is the most advantageous. The Executive
\nis today also analyzing a memorandum over supporting major research projects in
\nthe field of medical care. Prime Minister Orban has announced that he will
\ntable an emergency ordinance, which stipulates through budget adjustment, more
\nmoney for the country’s healthcare system, for the labour Ministry and social
\nprotection. The ceiling for state-granted credits to small and medium-sized
\nenterprises is to be lifted in order to ensure the necessary working or
\ninvestment capital. Local authorities will be allotted more money from the
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TALKS Romania’s president Klaus Iohannis is today having talks with Prime Minister
\nLudovic Orban and members of the Bucharest government over the measures to be
\nimposed after the state of emergency was extended for another month. Before the
\nmeeting the Romanian president said he would call for a revision of a previous
\nagreement between the Interior Ministry and the Romanian Orthodox Church, under
\nwhich police are offering assistance to priests and believers during Easter. A
\nseries of restrictions have been eased to allow for religious services but people
\nwill have to comply with social distancing rules. The president had called on
\nthe Romanians to stay at home, because otherwise the number of fatalities will
\nincrease after Easter. Another 5 people have been killed by the Covid virus in
\nRomania bringing the death toll to 362. The total number of people infected has
\nexceeded 7.200 out of which 1.217 have been cured and
\nreleased from hospitals. 245 patients are in the intensive care units at
\npresent. 709 Romanians are infected by the coronavirus abroad, 420 of them in
\nItaly. 52 Romanian nationals from the diaspora have been killed by the virus
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\nThe level of concern over the present medical situation tends to intensify both
\nin countries with little restrictions, such as Poland or the Netherlands, and
\nin countries with severe restrictions such as Italy, Spain or France – a poll
\npublished today by the Kantar company shows. According to the study, two rather
\noptimistic countries like Britain and the United States are seeing an increased
\npeople’s concern only two weeks after the previous poll was published. The
\nconcern of Germans over the present medical situation remains moderate as before.
\nRomania has 5% more people concerned from the previous report but the level of
\n80% is very high though. Most of people’s concern in this country is caused by
\nfinancial uncertainties. The poll was conducted on more than 45 thousand people
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TRANSPORT Road carriers in Romania have called on the Romanian presidency and
\nthe government in Bucharest to intervene through diplomatic channels for the
\nauthorities in Germany, Austria and Hungary and other EU members to allow them
\naccess to these countries. In a communiqu\u00e9 published today, representatives of
\nthe National Road Transporters in Romania say that several EU members have
\nimposed restrictions to professional Romanian drivers, which run against the
\nprinciple of the free circulation of road transporters. According to the
\norganization, several Romanian transport companies said their drivers had not
\nbeen allowed to leave the country or travel to countries like Germany or
\nAustria and operate on various routes in these countries under the contracts
\nconcluded with Romanian companies although the drivers produced all the
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PANDEMIC The number of infections with the new coronavirus at global level is
\nreaching 2 million and 125 thousand people have been killed. The USA has
\nreported in the past 24 hours over 22 hundred fatalities, which raises the
\ndeath toll to nearly 26 thousand. The most affected countries in Europe remain
\nItaly, Spain, France and the UK. The president of the European Commission
\nUrsula von de Leyen today presents recommendations for the EU countries to
\ngradually lift restrictions although the decision on what restrictions should
\nbe lifted depends on each country. In another development, US president Donald
\nTrump halted the US funding to the WHO for severely mismanaging the pandemic. <\/p>\n
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