Laws. <\/strong>
<\/p>\n
Covid-19.
<\/p>\n
WHO. <\/strong> The World Health
<\/p>\n
Evacuation.<\/strong>
<\/p>\n
Afghanistan.<\/strong>
A roundup of domestic and international news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":105194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[28908,35374,29701,35334],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-105307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsflash","tag-afghanistan","tag-covid-19","tag-government-ordinance","tag-who"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nOn Thursday, the Romanian Government
\ndiscussed a number of normative acts on education. The documents aim, among
\nother things, to supplement the posts in education by 3500, to include nurseries into the education system, and to continue
\nthe pilot program Hot meal in schools. A new way in which students
\nwith chronic diseases or who need long-term hospitalization can learn by means
\nof the School in Hospital project was also discussed. The relevant minister,
\nSorin Campeanu, also announced that students who scored 10 in the baccalaureate
\nor in the national evaluation will be rewarded. Also, the government adopted an
\nEmergency Ordinance on waste management, a normative act that increases the targets for
\nmunicipal waste recycling to 55% by 2025. By adopting this ordinance we have completed
\nthe new legislative package on waste management and fulfilled our obligations
\nas a member of the European Union, Environment Minister Barna Tanczos said. He
\nexplained that, in this way, a case of infringement against Romania will be
\nclosed. The new GEO will introduce new obligations for the stakeholders in the
\nchain and will regulate much more clearly separate waste collection activities
\nand the transition to circular economy.<\/p>\n
\n
\n
\n
<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>The number of daily new cases of
\ncoronavirus infection has increased again in Romania, approaching the threshold
\nof 600, according to authorities’ latest report. On Thursday, 595 new cases
\nwere reported, in some 32,000 tests performed, as well as 14 Covid-19 related deaths.
\nMost cases were registered in Bucharest, in Ilfov (near Bucharest) and Galati
\n(southeast). All counties and the capital remain in the green scenario in terms
\nof infections. The pressure on the intensive care units however, where 153
\npatients are hospitalized, is increasing. The authorities maintain their
\nforecast according to which Romania will register 1,000 new cases of COVID-19
\nper day at the end of August, and 1,500 daily new cases in mid-September. The epidemic
\nin Romania maintained its upward trend last week, according to data released on
\nThursday by the National Institute of Public Health. The number of related
\ndeaths was also on the rise, almost all of them among unimmunized people. More
\nthan 2,400 new cases of COVID-19 were
\nregistered between August 9-15, 48% more than the previous week. The number of
\nthose who died rose by more than 20%, reaching 34 last week.<\/p>\n
\n
\n
\n
<\/p>\n
\nOrganization has criticized the rush of
\nsome states to administer the third dose of vaccine against COVID-19, stressing
\nthat the data have not yet shown the need for a booster, while people in poor
\ncountries remain unprotected. Giving booster jabs to people who are already fully vaccinated
\nagainst coronavirus is like handing out extra life jackets to some while
\nleaving others to drown. The statement describes the position of WHO officials towards the policy already
\nunderway in Israel and which is set to be implemented as of next month in the
\nUS, by means of which a booster will be administered to those already fully
\nvaccinated. According to the WHO, there is no data confirming that those
\nadditional doses are needed. However, the number of cases of COVID-19 is
\nincreasing worldwide, especially among unvaccinated people who are more
\nvulnerable to the highly infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus. According
\nto worldometers.info, more than 210 million people have been infected worldwide
\nso far, and about 4.4 million have lost their lives due to Covid-19.<\/p>\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
<\/p>\n
\nA Romanian citizen, working for a NATO
\nagency, was evacuated last night from Kabul by a plane of the Romanian Armed
\nForces, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced. Other Romanian citizens
\nwho had requested assistance for evacuation could not be picked up because they
\nweren’t able to reach the airport. According to the MFA, at the time of the
\noperation by the Romanian military aircraft, 33 Romanian citizens were
\nregistered as being in Afghanistan. Of these, 16 requested assistance for evacuation.
\nThey are employees of a NATO agency, of a UN program, and of a security company
\noperating in Afghanistan respectively. The MFA has also announced that,
\nconsidering the fact that most of the Romanian citizens who opted for
\nevacuation are in locations outside the international airport, the Romanian
\nauthorities from the Inter-institutional Crisis Cell have taken steps to ensure
\ntheir transfer to the airport. The group stays in permanent contact with
\nRomanian citizens in various locations in Kabul, the Romanian line ministry has
\nalso stated. We recall that Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis convened for
\nnext Wednesday a meeting of the Supreme Council of National Defense on the
\nsecurity situation in Afghanistan and its implications for Romania.<\/p>\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
<\/p>\n
\nThe Taliban’s takeover of power in
\nAfghanistan is the most important geopolitical event since the Crimean
\nPeninsula crisis in 2014 and a new opportunity for China, Russia and Turkey
\nto expand their influence in Central Asia, the EU security chief Josep Borrell said
\non Thursday, France Presse reports. Speaking in the European Parliament,
\nBorrell reaffirmed the need for Europe to talk with the Taliban, in order to stop
\nthe humanitarian crisis, but stressed that this didn’t mean an official
\ndiplomatic recognition of the Taliban regime. For his part, European Parliament
\nPresident David Sassoli said that all EU states must receive Afghan refugees
\nthreatened by Taliban and that they should be distributed equally among the member
\nstates. In another move, the British Defense Secretary, Ben Wallace, has stated
\nthat Afghanistan’s situation encourages the
\nperception that the West is weak, and the Islamists see the withdrawal of the
\nallies as a victory that will inspire new terrorists. The situation in
\nAfghanistan was also discussed in the British Parliament. Meanwhile, efforts
\ncontinue to evacuate Western citizens and Afghan allies, most of them
\ncivilians, but access to Kabul airport is difficult. At the White House, president Joe Biden said the US troops could
\nremain in Afghanistan beyond the deadline set for the end of August, if more
\ntime was needed to get all Americans out of that country. (MI)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"