VACCINE Roughly 15 hundred people got
\nthe vaccine on Friday in a Vaccination Marathon, which kicked off for three
\ndays in Timisoara, western Romania, with a view to giving an impetus to the
\nimmunization campaign, the local medical authorities have announced. 500
\nvolunteer physicians have got involved in this campaign during which 10
\nthousand Pfizer doses are to be administered and even more if needed. 90
\nthousand vaccine doses have been administered in the past 24 hours nationwide.
\nAlmost 3 million people have been vaccinated all over Romania since the vaccine
\nrollout kicked off in late December and 1.7 million of these have got the
\nsecond jab. The number of new Covid-19 cases is on a downward trend and so is
\nthe number of people treated in hospitals, which now are under 11 thousand. 14
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MEASURES The Committee for Emergency
\nSituations of the city of Bucharest has extended the containment measures for
\nthe Covid-19 pandemic. The night curfew between 22 and 5 hours is still in
\nplace during the weekdays and between 20 and 5 hours at weekend. On April 8th
\nthe government extended the state of alert on Romania’s territory for 30 more
\ndays, starting April 13th. The night curfew is to be lifted though
\nduring the Orthodox Easter over May 1st and 2nd and
\nRamadan over May 8th and 9th. <\/p>\n
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RATING A decision by the Fitch rating
\nagency to reconfirm Romania’s position among the low-risk countries in terms of
\ninvestment, has been based on its moderate public debt and the positive GDP
\ndevelopment per capita, says the Finance Ministry in Bucharest. Fitch Ratings
\nhas affirmed Romania’s rating at ‘BBB minus’ with negative outlook. According
\nto the agency, the negative outlook reflects uncertainty regarding the
\nimplementation of policies to address medium-term fiscal imbalances and the
\nimpact of the coronavirus pandemic on Romania’s public finances. The plans of
\nthe present administration include a series of fiscal and macro reforms to
\nanchor medium-term fiscal sustainability, but a weak track record of fiscal
\nconsolidation and very high budget rigidities constitute key public finance
\nchallenges. Fitch expects Romania’s economy to expand by an average of 5.8% in
\n2021-22 thanks to the strong investment momentum and a gradual recovery in
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TENNIS The world’s
\nthird tennis player, Romanian Simona Halep is up against Arina Sabalenka of
\nBelarus in the semifinals of the WTA tournament in Stuttgart, Germany, a
\ncompetition with 570 thousand dollars in prize money. The head-to-head is 3-1
\nto Halep, who outperformed Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova in the quarter finals.
\nIn the other semifinal game, Australian Ashleigh Barty plays Elina Svitolina of
\nUkraine. Another Romanian player, Sorana Cirstea is today playing Ukrainian
\nMarta Kostyuk for a place in the finals of the WTA tournament in Istanbul. <\/p>\n
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