Inquiry.<\/strong> Romanian prime minister Florin C\u00ee\u021bu
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Travel.<\/strong> Romania has expanded the
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Vaccination<\/strong>. Almost 2,600 new Covid
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Schools. <\/strong>The Romanian authorities are
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Navalny.<\/strong> The EU foreign policy chief Josep
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Moldova-France.<\/strong> France has promised to help the
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Tennis.<\/strong> World no. 2 Simona Halep of Romania will
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\nsaid he asked the government’s control division to verify the management by the
\neconomy ministry of the awarding of one-off Covid grants to small and medium
\nsized companies. The move comes after a discussion with economy minister
\nClaudiu N\u0103sui who earlier posted on Facebook that the measure did not achieve
\nthe goal for which it was intended. He said that while the grant was supposed
\nto help businesses cope with the pandemic, it ended up financing property
\npurchases. N\u0103sui said more than half of the businesses eligible for this grant
\napplied for the purchase of real estate. Last summer, the Liberal government
\nled by Ludovic Orban adopted a funding scheme aimed at helping small and medium
\nsized businesses affected by the pandemic in the form of investment grants
\nworth between 50,000 and
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\nlist of countries with a high epidemiological risk and, as of 12th
\nFebruary, will require the presentation of a negative Covid test taken up to 72
\nhours before entering the country.
\nArrivals to Romania will be asked to isolate for 14 days, with the
\nexception of children under the age of 3, people who have received the Covid
\nvaccine, including the second dose, and persons who tested positive for Covid in
\nthe last 90 days. <\/p>\n
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\ncases and 73 new deaths were recorded on Friday. The total number of infections
\nin this country now passes 740,000, while the death toll is nearing 18,750. Romania
\nwill only administer the Covid vaccine produced by AstraZeneca together with
\nOxford University to adults between 18 and 55. At the end of last month, the
\nEuropean Medicines Agency said there was insufficient data on the efficacy of
\nthis vaccine in persons over 55 but that it expects it to protect them, based
\non the information provided by the manufacturer. However, a number of European
\nstates decided not to administer the AstraZeneca vaccine to the elderly.
\nRomania is to receive 800,000 doses of this vaccine by the end of the month. In
\nthe meantime, the roll-out of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine continues in Romania,
\nwhere the Moderna vaccine also began to be administered on Thursday. More than
\n629,000 people have received the Covid jab in Romania so far.<\/p>\n
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\nmaking the final preparations for the reopening of schools next week. Three
\nscenarios are in place, depending on the local infection rate. With the exception
\nof two months, teaching has been conducted exclusively online in Romania since
\nlast March, amid discontent from pupils, parents, teachers and non-governmental
\norganisations in the field. <\/p>\n
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\nBorrell is today having talks in Moscow with Russian foreign minister Sergei
\nLavrov about the situation of the jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The
\nEuropean Union has asked for his immediate release. France Presse news agency
\nnotes that talks are going to be difficult, after Moscow described western
\ncriticism as interference in its domestic affairs. Radio Romania’s
\ncorrespondent in Moscow recalled that president Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said
\nthe EU should not made the mistake of linking the future of Russian-European
\nrelations to the Navalny
\ncase. Navalny was arrested and then sentenced to prison on his return from
\nGermany, where he had received treatment for Novichok poisoning. He is now due
\nto serve 2 years and 8 months in jail. <\/p>\n
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\nRepublic of Moldova with its development and democratic process and to solve
\nthe frozen conflict in Transdniester, a Russian-speaking break-away region in
\nthe east of the majority Romanian-speaking republic. Moldova’s president Maia
\nSandu met French president Emmanuel Macron on Thursday during her two-day official
\ntrip to Paris. She emphasised that her country’s commitment to Europe, which it
\nundertook in 2014 when it signed its association agreement with the European
\nUnion, is the shortest path to democracy and prosperity. <\/p>\n
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\nbe facing Australia’s Lizette Cabrera in her opening match at the Australian
\nOpen which gets under way on Monday in Melbourne. Two other Romanian players
\nwill face each other in the first round, Patricia \u0162ig and Sorana C\u00eerstea, while
\nIrina Begu will face Serbia’s Nina Stojanovic and Ana Bogdan will be playing Danielle
\nCollins of the US. Mihaela Buz\u0103rnescu, the sixth Romanian player on the main
\ndraw at the Australian Open, will face the Romanian-born Canadian player Bianca
\nAndreescu. (CM)<\/p>\n