COVID-19 Authorities in Romania have announced fresh restrictions amid an
\nincreasing number of Covid-19 infections. The new restrictions are to come into
\neffect on Sunday, and under a government decision released on Friday night,
\nevery Romanian region will have to report their infection rates. An infection
\nrate of 4 per thousand will force shops and service providers to close down at
\n18 hours while a curfew is to be observed starting 20 hours during the weekend.
\nA rate of 7.5 cases per thousand means the new restrictions can be applied the
\nentire week not only at the weekend. Roughly 59 hundred fresh Covid-19
\ninfections were reported in Romania on Saturday out of 37 thousand tests
\nconducted. One year on from the onset of the pandemic 930 thousand people were
\ninfected in Romania, which reported a death toll of 23 thousand. The number of Romanians
\nwho got at least one dose of the anti-Covid vaccine stands at roughly 1,900,000.
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CHISINAU Parliament in the neighboring Romanian-speaking Republic of Moldova is
\ntoday marking through a solemn session 103 years since the union of Basserabia
\nwith Romania. The event is to be attended by the presidents of Science Academia
\nin Romania and the Republic of Moldova, leading figures of culture and MPs. On
\nMarch 27th 1918, towards the end of WWI, Basserabia’s Legislature unanimously
\nvoted the union of this province with the Romanian kingdom. It was the first
\nstage in the process of creating the unitary Romanian state, which was
\ncompleted through the joining of other Romanian regions, such as Bukovina,
\nTransylvania, Banat, Crisana and Maramures, which until then had been part of
\nAustria-Hungary. In the summer of 1940, through an ultimatum, USSR annexed
\nBasserabia and northern Bukovina, Romanian territories, which today belong to
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DST
\nDaylight Saving Time begins tonight in Romania when the clocks are to be set
\none hour forward and the difference between the local time and GMT will be
\nthree hours. DST was first introduced in Romania back in 1932 and this might be
\nthe last hour change as the European Parliament in 2019 voted in favour of
\nrenouncing this measure inside the EU. Each member state is to decide whether
\nto scrap the DST or not. The countries willing to keep the summer hour will
\nmake the last change tonight. Those preferring the winter hour will make the
\nfinal change in the last Sunday of October. <\/p>\n
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EARTH HOUR The presidential administration in Bucharest decided to join the ‘Earth
\nHour’ event by switching off interior and exterior lights at the Cotroceni
\npalace, the headquarters of the Romanian presidency on Saturday night. Earth
\nHour is at present one of the biggest world movements for the protection of the
\nenvironment and it involves millions of people, who are switching off lights
\nall over the world for one hour in order to prove their commitment to saving
\nthe planet. The movement appeared in Australia in 2007 and since then over 190
\ncountries and territories have joined it. <\/p>\n
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STRIKE The Bucharest underground has resumed its activity after the employees
\nmounted a protest on Friday by blocking tracks. According to the authorities,
\nthe protest was illegal and was sparked off by an older dispute concerning the
\ncommercial spaces on its premises, which allegedly had a trade union leader involved.
\nThe protesters have been blamed for having failed to comply with the present
\nregulations, putting travelers’ health at risk, as they had to use crowded public
\ntransport vehicles. In turn, the employees representatives who have blamed the
\nauthorities for their lack of interest in a constructive dialogue, said the protest
\nwas an unofficial strike sparked off by the board’s decision to cut down
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