{"id":105088,"date":"2021-05-15T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/may-15-2021-105088.html"},"modified":"2024-02-15T20:52:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T18:52:45","slug":"may-15-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/may-15-2021-id105088.html","title":{"rendered":"May 15, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong class=cms-bold>Covid-19.<\/strong>  Today is the first day in which the relaxation measures&#13;<br \/>\ndecided by the Romanian Government after the decrease of the infection rate with&#13;<br \/>\nthe new coronavirus across the country are applied. Thus, the protective mask&#13;<br \/>\nis no longer mandatory outdoors, but wearing a mask is still a must in public&#13;<br \/>\ntransport stops, markets, fairs and in areas where rallies, processions,&#13;<br \/>\nconcerts or other types of gatherings take place. Traffic restrictions during&#13;<br \/>\nthe night have also been lifted, and restaurants, bars and terraces can stay&#13;<br \/>\nopen from 5 till midnight. Also, outdoor sports competitions can be organized&#13;<br \/>\nand held, at 25% seating capacity. Cultural events are also allowed, with a&#13;<br \/>\nmaximum of 500 people who must follow certain rules. If the pandemic maintains&#13;<br \/>\nits favorable evolution, with the decrease in the number of contamination&#13;<br \/>\ncases, other restrictive measures will be lifted on June 1. On Saturday, authorities announced 729 new cases of Covid-19, out of 33,000 tests run nationwide. The Strategic Communication Group also reported 72 Covid-19 related deaths. Currently, there are 784 patients in intensive care. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>School.<\/strong> 90% of the Romanian pupils will physically return to&#13;<br \/>\nschool on Monday. There are about 2.6 million children living in localities&#13;<br \/>\nwhere the rate of infection with the new coronavirus is below one per one thousand&#13;<br \/>\ninhabitants. The Minister of Education, Sorin C\u00eempeanu, has stated that there&#13;<br \/>\nare 2,527 such localities. Another 654, including Bucharest, have infection&#13;<br \/>\nrates above one in one thousand, and school will continue online. The Minister has&#13;<br \/>\nalso stated that the syllabus for this year&#8217;s exams has been adapted, due to&#13;<br \/>\nthe fact that most children attended online classes, but that the level of&#13;<br \/>\ndifficulty of the National Assessment and Baccalaureate examinations will&#13;<br \/>\nremain the same.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>DNA.<\/strong> The general mayor of Bucharest, Nicusor Dan, announced&#13;<br \/>\nthat he has filed a complaint with the National Anticorruption Directorate&#13;<br \/>\n(DNA) concerning an estimated damage of several million euros. Elected, in&#13;<br \/>\nSeptember 2020, as an independent, supported by the governing PNL and USR, the&#13;<br \/>\nmayor says that the municipality registered the damage during the previous&#13;<br \/>\nadministration, led by the Social Democrat Gabriela Firea, currently a senator.&#13;<br \/>\nThe &#8216;criminal scheme&#8217; is all the more &#8216;cynical&#8217;, as the cemeteries in Bucharest&#13;<br \/>\nare concerned, Nicusor Dan said, also stressing that, taking into account the&#13;<br \/>\nlegal provisions and the involvement of several public institutions in this&#13;<br \/>\ncase, he cannot provide, for now, more details.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>Volleyball.<\/strong> Romanian men&#8217;s volleyball national team meets, today, on home&#13;<br \/>\nturf, in Ploie\u015fti (south), the Swiss national team, in a new match from the&#13;<br \/>\nsecond tour of Group E of the 2021European Championship preliminaries. The&#13;<br \/>\nRomanians defeated Albania 3-1 on Friday, after winning the match in the first tour&#13;<br \/>\nin Nitra, Slovakia. The winners of the 7 preliminary groups and the best 5&#13;<br \/>\noccupants of the 2 places qualify for the final tournament of the 2021European&#13;<br \/>\nChampionship. The final round will be organized in four countries, Poland, the&#13;<br \/>\nCzech Republic, Estonia and Finland, between September 1st and 19th. 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