VACCINE A Vaccination Marathon has kicked
\noff for three days in Timisoara, western Romania, with a view to giving an
\nimpetus to the immunization campaign, local medical authorities have announced.
\n500 volunteer physicians, nurses and medical students have got involved in this
\ncampaign during which 10 thousand Pfizer doses are to be administered. The
\nfirst drive-in vaccination center was opened in Deva, western Romania on
\nSaturday, allowing people to get a jab in the parking lot of the local city
\nmall. 90 thousand vaccine doses have been administered in the past 24 hours
\nnationwide. Almost 3 million people have been vaccinated all over Romania since
\nthe vaccine rollout kicked off in late December and 1.7 million of these have
\ngot the second jab. The number of new Covid-19 cases is on a downward trend and
\nso is the number of people currently being treated in hospitals. 22 hundred
\nCovid infections have been reported in the past 24 hours and 154 fatalities.
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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 place
\nduring 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
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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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OSCAR The 93rd Academy
\nAwards is to take place on Sunday, 23rd April, with a two-month
\ndelay due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Director Alexander Nanau’s film ‘Collective’
\nis Romania’s proposal for 2021 Academy Awards, and it will be running in the Best
\nDocumentary Feature and the Best International Feature Film sections. A Romania-Luxembourg
\nproduction, the film presents the joint efforts of physicians, government
\nofficials and journalists to unearth a major fraud in Romania’s healthcare system,
\nin the aftermath of the blaze that destroyed the Colectiv night club in
\nBucharest in October 2015. ‘Collective’ has been designated the best
\ndocumentary by the European Film Awards and by the London Critics’ Circle Film
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TENNIS Romanian
\ntennis player Sorana Cirstea on Saturday qualified for the finals of the WTA
\ntennis tournament in Istanbul with 235 thousand dollars in prize money. The
\nRomanian clinched a 6-4, 6-4 win against Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine and she will
\nbe up against top-seeded Elise Mertens of Belgium on Sunday. Mertens
\noutperformed Russian Veronika Kudermetova 6-1, 6-4. <\/p>\n
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