COVID-19 Romania has run out of places
\nin its ICU’s treating Covid -19 infections. 17,600 people are currently being
\ntreated in hospitals around the country out of which 17 hundred are in
\nintensive care. The Defence Ministry has decided to increase the number of beds
\nin all military hospitals across the country. Romania’s interim Health
\nMinister, Cseke Attila, has announced that more ICUs will be added to
\nBucharest, which presently has scores of severe cases. According to him, 8
\ninfected patients have already been transferred to clinics in Hungary and the
\ntransfer of infected patients is going to continue today. Also today the
\nNational Committee for Emergency situations is expected to make a decision upon
\nthe proposal of the National Public Health Institute (INSP) over instating
\nquarantine in Bucharest and its surroundings, which yesterday reported roughly
\n4 thousand new cases. The INSP recommends that all activities be interrupted in
\nthese localities and circulation restricted for two weeks to limit the rapid
\nspread of the virus. The Prime Minister says that he is not considering such a
\nsolution for the moment but an alternative solution that would be imposing the
\ngreen certificate in the institutions which have an increased contact with
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TALKS Romania’s Prime Minister
\ndesignate, Dacian Ciolos, is today having a new round of talks in an attempt to
\nrebuild the ruling coalition with the National Liberal Party (PNL) and the
\nDemocratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania (UDMR). The first round of talks
\nended with no concrete result and Ciolos announced his plan B: a USR ruling
\nprogramme as well as a list of ministers for the new cabinet, which he intends
\nto present to Parliament next week. The interim Prime Minister and PNL leader
\nFlorin Citu says that the coalition cannot be rebuilt but around the PNL. He
\ncontinues to criticize the USR for its contribution to dismantling the
\ncountry’s government during the pandemic saying, quote, ‘the USR must admit its
\nmistake and we must move further’ unquote. The USR, number two in the former
\nruling coalition, has made new appeals to responsibility concerning the PNL and
\nUDMR. Kelemen Hunor, the head of the UDMR, said after the first round of talks
\nthat the goal at this moment is the solution to the present pressing issues,
\nnamely the pandemic, the energy prices, inflation and the National Plan of
\nRecovery and Resilience, either in a government formula or another. The main
\nopposition party PSD says that Romania needs snap elections, and that a
\ntechnocratic government can handle the medical crisis and the country’s economy
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GAMING Romanian capital Bucharest is these days playing
\nvenue for the world’s major electronic games competition Dota 2’s. The event
\nwill culminate with the grand finale on October 17th involving the
\nparticipation of the world’s best sides out of the 18 participating. According
\nto organizers, the tournament will be available online to 10 million
\nspectators. Romania is going to receive 16% out of the total prizes of 40
\nmillion dollars. The World Gaming Championship, which is being hosted by the
\nNational Arena in Bucharest, is going without spectators this year due to the
\nCovid-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n
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ATTACK A man suspected of having
\nkilled 5 people in Norway by shooting arrows at them is to be brought before
\ncourt today. Espen Andersen Brathenl is a Danish citizen who converted to Islam
\nand lives in the city of Kongsberg, where he committed the crimes. According to
\nsources he has admitted his crime, which the authorities have described as a
\nterror attack. Bratheln has also served convictions in the past. <\/p>\n
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