COVID-19 Since the beginning of the
\npandemic, Romania has confirmed over 95 thousand of infections with a death
\ntoll standing around 3,893. Over 40,300 patients have been cured while 474 are
\nstill in intensive care units. 6,599 Romanian nationals have been confirmed
\ninfected abroad most of them in Germany, Italy and Spain. 126 of them have died.
\nPeople coming from Romania and Bulgaria to Italy must still stay in quarantine
\nfor 14 days. At world level the total number of infected has exceeded 27
\nmillion and the death toll is around 887 thousand. The most affected countries
\nare the USA with 6.4 million cases, India and Brazil, both with over 4 million.
\nThe most affected countries in Europe are Russia with over 1 million and Spain
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DIPLOMACY ‘Increasing Romania’s role inside the EU and NATO and also
\nconsolidating and expanding the Strategic Partnership with the United States
\nremain the key lines in Romania’s foreign policy’, is the message conveyed by
\nthe country’s president, Klaus Iohannis at the Romanian Diplomacy Annual
\nMeeting. According to the president, in the wake of the pandemic crisis, the
\nRomanian diplomacy is going to embrace some new facets and that involves
\nadditional ingenuity and flexibility. The present Annual Meeting of Romanian
\nDiplomacy has been held online for the first time as videoconference and is
\ngoing to last three days under the title, ‘The impact of the pandemic over the
\ninternational tendencies and the Romanian diplomacy response’. High on the
\nagenda are the impact of the medical crisis over the international relations
\nand global tendencies as well as the adjustment of the Romanian diplomacy
\ninstruments in this context. Among the invitees this year is the head of the European
\ndiplomacy Josep Borrell and NATO’s deputy secretary general, Romanian Mircea
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SCHOOL Romania’s Prime Minister Ludovic
\nOrban has said the school year begins on September 14th in this
\ncountry, at the same time underlining that people’s right to education is
\nfundamental. The Romanian official has explained the local authorities are
\nallowed to establish their own scenarios depending on the epidemiological
\nsituation in their region. In Bucharest the infection rate in the past two
\nweeks has stood at 1.19 per thousand, which places the capital city in the yellow
\nzone and that allows for the students’ return to schools. 43 localities have
\nbeen placed in the red zone, where students are taking only online courses,
\nwhile over 27 hundred localities are in the green zone, allowing school
\nattendance. The Health Ministry will this week provide direction lines for the
\norganization of activity in education institutions to prevent the spread of the
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FOOTBALL Romania’s national football side will tonight take on Austria in a
\nnew game of the Nation’s League Group 1B. On Friday in Bucharest, the Romanians
\nobtained only a one-all draw against Northern Ireland in their first game with
\nMirel Radoi as the selector. We recall that Radoi last summer managed to qualify
\nRomania Under 21 for the semifinals of the European Championship in Italy and
\nSan Marino. The group also includes Norway the Romanians are going to play next
\nmonth. Romania will be up against Iceland in Reykjavik on October 8th
\nin the semis of the European Championships play-offs. If they qualify, the
\nRomanians will be up against the winner of the game pitching Hungary against
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UNICEF According to a UNICEF report
\nRomania has a large number of students with low competences in reading and
\nmathematics, placing the country among those at the bottom of a European
\nranking. 40% of the children in the member countries of the EU’s Organization
\nfor Economic Co-operation and Development on an average, lacks basic
\ncompetences in reading and maths by the age of 15. The countries ranking first in
\nthe standings are Estonia, Ireland and Finland. According to the same survey, in
\nmost countries less than four-fifths of children report being satisfied with
\ntheir lives. Turkey has the lowest rate of life satisfaction. <\/p>\n
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