COVID-19 Romania has a ‘window of opportunity’ of at least 6 weeks to get ready
\nfor the moment in which the highly-contagious Delta variant is going to rise
\nsignificantly and create problems, says Andrei Baciu, secretary of state with
\nthe Health Ministry in Bucharest. Authorities in Romania are presently targeting
\nthe country’s rural areas to step up the vaccine rollout. According to Baciu,
\nno significant vaccination initiatives have been carried out in 25-30 % of
\nRomania’s communes and villages. The number of infections with the novel
\ncoronavirus remains low in Romania amid fears of the highly-contagious Delta
\nvariant, which the authorities believe will become dominant this autumn. In
\nspite of the sustained pro-vaccination campaigns, the threshold of 5 million
\nfully-vaccinated Romanians has not been reached yet, a month and a half after
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FILM
\nLa Civil, a Romanian-Belgian-Mexican production directed by Romanian Teodora
\nAna Mihai last night was awarded Prix de L’Audace of the Un certain regard section
\nof the 74th edition of the Film festival in Cannes. Among its
\nproducers are the famous Romanian director Cristian Mungiu and the Belgian
\nbrothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne. The film tells the story of Cielo, a
\nMexican mother searching for her daughter who has been abducted by members of a
\ndrug cartel. As the local authorities fail to help her, Cielo takes things into
\nher own hands and gradually turns from housewife into an avenging activist.
\nRussian filmmaker Kira Kovalenko has got the top prize in ‘Un certain regard’
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FLOODS The death toll from devastating floods across parts of Western Germany have
\ntoday risen to 130, while more than one thousand people are still unaccounted
\nfor. Germany and Belgium have for several days been affected by unprecedented
\ntorrential rains, which damaged several towns and villages. The most affected
\nregion is Rhineland-Palatinate where the police believe the death toll could
\nget higher. About 700 residents were evacuated last night after a dam burst
\nnear Cologne. Water levels remain high in many localities sweeping away cars
\nand making houses to collapse in the worst natural disaster to have struck Germany
\nin the past 50 years. Entire communities have been stranded and left without
\nelectricity and communications. A death toll of 20 has prompted the Belgian government
\nto declare a day of national mourning. Torrential rains have also affected the
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HOMAGE Seven years on from the MH-17 aviation disaster, the Romanian Foreign
\nMinistry is paying homage to the 298 people on board, including a Romanian
\ncitizen, who lost their lives in the incident. Romania believes the culprits
\nmust be brought to court and hails the criminal procedures underway in the
\nNetherlands, under the Dutch legislation. We recall the MH-17 aircraft
\nbelonging to Malaysia Airlines, was shot down over eastern Ukraine while flying
\nfrom Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. Dutch prosecutors launched criminal proceedings
\nagainst four suspects in June 2020 and started to investigate evidence a year
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