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Covid Romania. <\/strong>More than 1,174,000 million
\npeople have been vaccinated against Covid-19 in Romania, where a new batch of over 224,000 Pfizer-BioNTech doses is being delivered
\non Monday. Almost
\n3,300 new Covid cases were recorded in this country on Sunday, with the total
\nnumber of infections now passing 828,000 and the death toll 20,900. Some 1,100 Covid patients are in intensive
\ncare. Amid rising infection rates, the education and health ministries issued a
\njoint order saying that pupils in their finals years will continue to go to
\nschool even if Romania enters the red tier, in a combination of remote and in-person
\nlearning. This decision remains in place until the infection rate hits six cases
\nper 1,000 inhabitants, when it will be reviewed. Wearing face masks in class is
\nmandatory, with the exception of music school pupils studying wind instruments,
\nof all children during physical exercise classes and of pre-school children. A
\nfew counties are in the red zone, reporting more than 3 cases per 1,000
\ninhabitants over the course of 14 days, namely Timi\u015f (west), Maramure\u015f
\n(north-west), Ilfov (south), Cluj (north-west) and Bra\u015fov (centre). The capital
\nBucharest has also re-entered the red zone, with restaurants and cafes now
\nclosed for business indoors. The western city of Timi\u015foara and four
\nneighbouring villages will go into lockdown on Sunday midnight because of high
\ninfection rates. A few hundred people staged a protest
\non Sunday in Bucharest against draft legislation on vaccination under
\ndebate in Parliament.<\/p>\n

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Hospitals.<\/strong> Romania will build more hospitals in the next four years
\nusing European funds. This promise was made by prime minister Florin C\u00ee\u0163u, who
\nsaid he would like this to be a legacy of his government. He explained that the
\nonly condition for using the European money is for the new hospitals to be
\nfinalised by 2026, just like the other projects carried out under the EU’s
\nRecovery and Resilience Facility, under which Romania can benefit from 30
\nbillion euros worth of funding. C\u00ee\u0163u said this instrument will be simple and transparent,
\nand that private projects and entities will also be eligible for funding,
\nalongside public companies and institutions. Prime minister C\u00ee\u0163u said earlier
\nthat education will receive some 9% of the budget of the recovery and
\nresilience fund, while healthcare will receive some 3 billion euros. <\/p>\n

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Pope Iraq.<\/strong> On the final day of his historic
\ntrip to Iraq, Pope Francis met on Sunday members of the Christian community in
\nnorthern Iraq. In Mosul, amid the ruins of the churches destroyed by the
\nIslamic State jihadist organisation, the pontiff said the Christians’ exodus
\nfrom the Middle East was an incalculable loss. The occupation of a third of
\nIraq’s territory by the Islamic State from 2014 to 2017 was the latest episode
\nin a series of conflicts that drove most Iraqi Christians into exile. Today,
\nonly 400,000 of the country’s inhabitants identify as Christians, compared with
\n1.3 million in 2003, before the US-led invasion. After Mosul, the pope travelled to Qaraqosh, where he met the faithful in Al-Tahira church,
\nwhich was restored for this occasion after being burnt to the ground by the jihadists
\nin 2014. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Statistics. <\/strong>The proportion of women holding seats in the national
\nParliaments of EU member states grew from 21% in 2004 to 33% in 2020, according
\nto statistics published by Eurostat. Although this percentage varies
\nsignificantly across the Union, no country has more women than men in
\nParliament. Last year, the highest proportion of women in Parliament was
\nrecorded in Sweden (almost 50%), Belgium (43%) and Spain (42%), while Hungary
\nand Malta had the lowest percentages (both 13%), alongside Romania and the
\nCzech Republic (with 20%). With respect to the proportion of women in
\ngovernment in 2020, Finland had the highest level (55%), followed by Austria
\n(53%), Sweden (52%), France (51%) and Belgium (50%), while the lowest numbers
\nwere recorded in Malta (8%), Greece (11%), Estonia (13%) and Romania (17%). Eurostat
\npublished this report ahead of International Women’s Day on 8th
\nMarch.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tennis. <\/strong>Several Romanian players are
\nin competition at the Dubai WTA tennis tournament worth 1.84 million dollars in
\nprize money and which got under way on Sunday. Sorana
\nC\u00eerstea (67 WTA)
\nand Patricia \u021aig (61 WTA) went straight to the
\nmain draw, while Ana Bogdan (100 WTA) and Irina Begu (72
\nWTA) had to go through the qualifiers. Two Romanian players are also in competition in the
\ndoubles. Simona Halep, the winner of the Dubai singles
\ntrophy in 2020, is not playing this year. (CM)<\/p>\n


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