{"id":104735,"date":"2020-11-20T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/november-20-2020-104735.html"},"modified":"2024-02-15T20:47:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T18:47:49","slug":"november-20-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/november-20-2020-id104735.html","title":{"rendered":"November 20, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Coronavirus Romania.<\/strong> Romania saw 9,272 new
\ncoronavirus cases on Friday, with the total number now passing 400,000. 160 new
\ndeaths were also reported, the death toll now standing at 9,765. 1,139 people
\nare in intensive care. Bucharest has run out of intensive care beds and a
\nnumber of patients were taken to hospitals in other cities on Thursday. Health
\nminister Nelu T\u0103taru says the
\ncapacity of intensive care units will increase in the coming period and that an
\nassessment will be made of needed staff and equipment. Local lockdowns were
\nimposed in places with a spike in cases. On Thursday night, two villages near
\nBucharest, Clinceni and Berceni, both with an infection rate of more than 10
\nper 1,000 inhabitants, were placed in lockdown. The south-eastern city of
\nConstanta also goes into lockdown today for two weeks. <\/p>\n

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Coronavirus world. <\/strong>Global coronavirus cases passed
\n57.2 million and fatalities 1.3 million. US president elect Joe Biden said he
\nwould not order a national lockdown to fight the pandemic, despite cases
\nsoaring in the US over the last few weeks. The president of the European
\nCommission Ursula von der Leyen said the Union could approve two Covid vaccines
\nby the end of the year, made by Pfizer and BioNTech and Moderna. The European
\nMedicines Agency may issue conditional marketing authorisation for these
\nvaccines in the second part of December at the earliest. In Greece, cases have
\ncontinued to rise despite measures, and the authorities are now closing the
\ncountry’s northern borders and take additional social distancing measures in
\nthese areas. North Macedonia announced plans to declare a state of emergency to
\ncurb the galloping rise in cases. The Regional Director for Europe at the World
\nHealth Organisation, Hans Kluge,
\nsaid one person dies every 17 seconds from Covid-19 in Europe, where the
\ngeneral mortality rate rose by almost a fifth in the last two weeks. <\/p>\n

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Face masks.<\/strong> Romania has so far issued four
\nsafety notifications for non-conforming face masks made in China, the National
\nConsumer Protection Authority said today. The products in question are not
\ncertified as protective equipment by a relevant body, so it’s possible they do
\nnot meet the health and safety requirements in place. The notifications were
\nreceived by the EU rapid alert system for non-food products, also known as RAPEX.
\nThe authorities have recommended that such products be withdrawn from the
\nmarket and have warned sellers to consult the consumer protection and RAPEX websites
\nbefore marketing them to make sure they are not banned. Recently, the National
\nConsumer Protection Authority withdrew over 31 million protective face masks
\nafter checks conducted across the country. <\/p>\n

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EU budget.<\/strong> EU
\nleaders meeting in video conference format on Thursday night failed to reach a
\nbreakthrough in talks on the bloc’s future multiannual budget, following
\nopposition from Hungary, Poland and Slovenia, who don’t agree with the idea of
\nlinking funding to the rule of law. The EU leaders also discussed the
\nmanagement of the coronavirus pandemic with a focus on the mutual recognition
\nof the results of Covid tests, the progress made in developing a vaccine and a
\njoint approach to lifting restrictions. Romania was represented by president Klaus
\nIohannis, who, prior to the meting, had a telephone conversation with German
\nchancellor Angela Merkel. Iohannis said Romania constantly supported the need to
\nfinalise the talks on the EU multiannual budget and the economic recovery plan
\nas soon as possible. He also emphasised that the mutual recognition of Covid
\ntests facilitates free movement within the EU and called for an efficient
\ncommunication campaign with respect to vaccination against the novel
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Book fair.<\/strong> The Radio Romania Gaudeamus Book Fair
\ncontinues with more online events and books launches. The highlights today
\ninclude new poetry collections, novels and new radio products for children. The
\npublic can vote for their favourite book on the fair’s Facebook page. In the
\nfirst four days of the fair, the gaudeamus.ro website has had almost 35,000
\nsingle users and more than 150,000 visits. This year’s edition is held
\nexclusively online and brings together more than 100 participants, including
\nsome of the biggest publishing houses in Romania and distributors of Romanian
\nand foreign books, music and games. The fair is coming to an end on Sunday. <\/p>\n

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Handball.<\/strong> The Romanian women’s handball side CSM
\nBucharest on Thursday night lost to the Russian side Rostov on Don in a
\nChampions League Group A match. CSM were initially due to play at the weekend
\nagainst SC BBM Bietigheim from
\nGermany, but the match was postponed after the German side was quarantined.
\nThis was the CSM’s final match in 2020, finishing the year second in their
\ngroup behind Rostov. In Group B, CSM R\u00e2mnicu
\nV\u00e2lcea have lost all of their matches so far and will not be playing another
\nmatch this year. The competition breaks up after this weekend for the European
\nChampionships held in Denmark and will be resumed in January. (CM)<\/p>\n

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