COVID-19 1,504 new cases of Covid infections have
\nbeen registered in Romania since the previous reports, the Group of Strategic
\nCommunication announced on Thursday. This has been the largest number of
\ninfections reported in a single day. 38 new fatalities have also been reported
\nraising the death toll to 3,459. 83,150 infections have been confirmed in
\nRomania since the beginning of the pandemic. 36,677 patients have been cured
\nand left hospitals. 11,351 have been confined at home, and 5,654 are currently in
\nisolation. 30,770 have been quarantined at home and 492 patients are in
\nintensive care units. According to Romania’s Health Minister Nelu Tataru, the
\nnumber of infections is likely to decrease; however, this decrease isn’t going
\nto be fast but gradual. 6,585 of the Romanian citizens abroad have been
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INDEPENDENCE The neighboring Republic of Moldova on Thursday marked
\n29 years since the proclamation of its independence. On August 27, 1991 after
\nthe failed coup d’etat in Moscow, the Parliament in Chisinau, picketed by
\nhundreds of thousands of people, voted for breaking away from the Soviet Union.
\nThe Republic of Moldova is set up on part of the Romanian eastern territories
\nannexed by Moscow in 1940, following an ultimatum. Romania was the first
\ncountry in the world to recognize the independence of the neighboring
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MOTION The permanent bureaus of the Romanian Parliament’s
\ntwo chambers decided on Thursday that the no confidence motion tabled by the
\nopposition Social Democratic Party PSD against the Liberal government should be
\ndebated and voted on the last day of the extraordinary session, on August 31.
\nThe Social Democrats criticize the Liberal government for the way in which it
\nmanaged the crisis caused by the pandemic. In turn, the government has notified
\nthe Constitutional Court over the tabling of a no confidence motion during the
\nparliamentary break. The Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has accused PSD of
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DECISION According to Romania’s Prime Minister
\nLudovic Orban, the government is going to amend the decision through which it
\nimposed the state of alert allowing the reopening of restaurants, under certain
\nprevention rules. He reminded that the HoReCa sector benefited from support during
\nthe pandemic with a series of taxes and duties either cancelled or reduced. The
\nsector has also benefited from postponed installments and technical
\nunemployment measures. Representatives of this industry in Romania on Wednesday
\npledged to observe the European regulations imposed by the present
\nepidemiological situation. <\/p>\n
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