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\nnumber of infections with the new coronavirus has exceeded 36,600, according to
\nthe latest data made public by the Strategic Communication Group. 889 new cases
\nin 24 hours were reported on Saturday. Also, 21 more people died, raising the
\npandemic death toll to 2009. Out of those who tested positive, more than 22,400
\nhave been declared cured and discharged. Abroad, 5,212 Romanians were confirmed
\nto be infected with the new coronavirus, and 122 died. Doctors say that one of
\nthe causes of the explosion in the number of cases is the discharge of positive
\npatients on demand. Prime Minister Ludovic Orban stated on Saturday that he did
\nnot wish to impose measures that would impact the economy in a negative way,
\nbut that depended on how the rules were observed. In turn, the health minister
\nNelu Tataru said that authorities were not considering delaying the start of
\nthe school year or the local elections due in September. He also rejected the
\nidea of a new state of emergency due to the rise in the number of Covid-19
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\n14,200,000 people have been infected with the new coronavirus in the world
\nsince the beginning of the pandemic and almost 600,000 have died. According to
\nworldometers.info, more than 8.4 million people have healed so far. The United
\nStates reported, for the third day in a row, a record number of new cases of
\nCOVID-19 in 24 hours, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The more
\nthan 77,600 new contaminations reviewed in one day bring the number of cases of
\ninfection in the country, since the beginning of the pandemic, to about 3.64
\nmillion. For several weeks now, the United States has been facing a surge spike
\nin the number of infections in the south and west of the country. Despite that,
\npresident Donald Trump has promised to not force the Americans wear masks,
\nsaying that people must enjoy a certain freedom. His statements contradicts the
\nrecommendations made by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the US’s chief epidemiologist, who
\ncalled on central and local government to be firm and have people wear masks. In the face of rising contamination and the
\nthreat of a second wave, several European countries continue to tighten
\nsanitation and quarantine conditions. In France, where several outbreaks have
\nreappeared in recent days, wearing a mask will become mandatory next week in
\nall enclosed spaces reserved for the public. In Australia, Prime Minister Scott
\nMorrison postponed the opening of parliament by a few weeks, given that the new
\ncoronavirus continues to spread in the most densely populated cities in the
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\nPresident Klaus Iohannis on Saturday promulgated the Law on the establishment
\nof measures in the field of public health in situations of epidemiological and
\nbiological risk. On Thursday, the Bucharest Senate, the decision-making body on
\nthis matter, adopted the law on quarantine and isolation. In six days of
\ndebates, numerous changes were made to the bill initiated by the Government.
\nEarlier, in the Chamber of Deputies, the document, harshly criticized by
\nspecialists, the opposition and NGOs, had been changed. In the form in which it
\nwas definitively voted, the law stipulates, among other things, that the
\nquarantine measure is established on the basis of official scientific
\nstatements and case definition, at the person’s home, at a location declared by
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\nGerard Mourou, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2018 and the
\ninitiator of the ELI (Extreme Light Infrastructure) project, came to Romania,
\nwhere he visited, the ELI Center in M\u0103gurele (near Bucharest). Professor Mourou
\nparticularly appreciated the remarkable progress in the implementation of the
\nproject, emphasizing the uniqueness, technological and scientific advancement
\nof the infrastructure made at the international research platform in the field
\nof lasers. He discussed with researchers there the launch of experiments
\nrelated to the use of high-power laser systems in the development of new
\nnuclear technologies for energy production with minimal environmental
\npollution. We recall that, in March 2019, the laser in Magurele
\nregistered a first in world research: it reached 10 PW, the power for which it
\nwas built, being the most powerful laser in the world. (M. Ignatescu)<\/p>\n