{"id":104579,"date":"2020-09-15T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/september-15-2020-104579.html"},"modified":"2024-02-15T20:45:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T18:45:53","slug":"september-15-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/september-15-2020-id104579.html","title":{"rendered":"September 15, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>ALERT The government in Bucharest has today&#13;<br \/>\nendorsed a decision on extending the state of alert for Romania with another 30&#13;<br \/>\ndays beginning on Tuesday. The document stipulates a series of measures&#13;<br \/>\nregulating the ongoing local election campaign and the voting procedures, at&#13;<br \/>\nthe same time limiting meetings and demonstrations to 100 people with the&#13;<br \/>\nobservance of safety rules and regulations. Voters must use disinfectants while&#13;<br \/>\nentering and exiting poling stations. A mobile polling station will be made&#13;<br \/>\navailable first for the healthy but non-transportable persons and then for&#13;<br \/>\nthose in isolation and quarantine. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>UNDERGROUND A metro section linking the west of&#13;<br \/>\nBucharest to its centre was inaugurated on Tuesday. Authorities have given&#13;<br \/>\nassurances that systems are functional to offer safe and comfortable transport.&#13;<br \/>\nThis 7 kilometer underground section is the first to have been built from&#13;<br \/>\nscratch since the demise of the communist regime in Romania thirty years ago.&#13;<br \/>\nThe section, which should have been ready five years ago and has a total value&#13;<br \/>\nof 0.7 billion Euros, has become part of Bucharest underground network of 78&#13;<br \/>\nkilometres and 63 stations. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>EDUCATION School started in Romania on Monday for&#13;<br \/>\nroughly 3 million students. 12, 500 schools have opened their gates while 5&#13;<br \/>\nthousand others are also offering alternative online course. Against the background&#13;<br \/>\nof the Covid-19 pandemic, more than half of the parents in Romania&#8217;s urban&#13;<br \/>\nareas want their children to go to school, shows a recent poll conducted in several&#13;<br \/>\ncities across the country. At the same time 61% of the interviewees believe that&#13;<br \/>\nschools presently cannot offer education in safe conditions while 66% believe&#13;<br \/>\nthat students must wear face masks in classrooms. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>CONTEST A series of 55 mini-recitals held by pianists from all over the&#13;<br \/>\nworld has today ended as part of the George Enescu International Classical&#13;<br \/>\nMusic Contest. The event has been made available at <a href=http:\/\/www.festivalenescu.ro\/>www.festivalenescu.ro<\/a> and the jury is&#13;<br \/>\nexpected to announce the winners on Wednesday. Only 12 out of the total 55&#13;<br \/>\nparticipants will make it to the competition&#8217;s next stage. The most important&#13;<br \/>\ninternational cultural event, the George Enescu Festival has four contest&#13;<br \/>\nsections, piano, cello, violin and composition and comes fifth in a world&#13;<br \/>\nranking of classical music contests. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 According to worldometers.info&#13;<br \/>\nthe confirmed Covid-19 infections continue to be on the rise at a world level.&#13;<br \/>\nThe total number of infections worldwide has reached 29.4 million with a death&#13;<br \/>\ntoll of 932 thousand. The most affected countries are the USA, India, Brazil,&#13;<br \/>\nRussia, Peru, Columbia, Mexico, South Africa, Spain and Argentina. The most&#13;<br \/>\naffected African countries are South Africa, Egypt, Morocco, Ethiopia and&#13;<br \/>\nNigeria while in Europe the most affected are Russia, Spain, France, the UK,&#13;<br \/>\nTurkey, Italy, Germany, Ukraine, Romania, Belgium and Sweden. 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