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\nauthorities are meeting today to establish the next steps after the first two
\ncases of SARS-CoV2 Omicron infection were confirmed in Romania – in people
\nrepatriated on November 30 from South Africa. One of the patients is asymptomatic
\nand the other has very mild symptoms. The result of the sequencing of a third
\nsample collected from a sportsman from Baia Mare, also repatriated, with the
\nsame plane on November 30 from South Africa, is still pending. The coronavirus pandemic
\ncontinues its declining trend in Romania. 35% fewer new cases and associated
\ndeaths have been reported this week as compared to the previous one. The number
\nof hospitalized and intensive care patients has also been reduced by a quarter.
\n916 new cases of COVID-19 and 78 deaths, 5 of which from a previous reporting
\nperiod, have been announced today. The interest in vaccination remains low.
\nAccording to the latest assessment, only about 8,000 people have taken the
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\naround the world are preparing measures to limit the spread of the new coronavirus
\nvariant that seems to be more transmissible than Delta. First detected in South
\nAfrica, Omicron infections have already been reported in about 40 countries. As
\nof Tuesday, passengers arriving in the UK will have to take a COVID test no
\nlater than 48 hours before departure. Italy will ban the access of unvaccinated
\npeople to most public places starting Monday. France, where 12 cases of Omicron
\nhave been identified, has changed the sanitary conditions for entry into the
\ncountry. According to the RRA correspondent in Paris, all those coming from
\noutside the EU, including the vaccinated, will be required to present a
\nnegative test taken no later than 48 hours in advance. Unvaccinated European
\ncitizens are also required to show a negative result no later than 24 hours after
\ntaking the test. In another move, more than 40,000 people, according to police
\nestimates, took part in a march against the lockdown and compulsory vaccination
\nagainst COVID-19 in Vienna on Saturday, Reuters reports. Following the rapid
\nproliferation of coronavirus infections, Austria became the first Western
\nEuropean country to re-introduce the lockdown last month and also decided to
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\ndue to return in the military port of Constanta on Monday, from a mission in
\nthe Mediterranean, where it participated, between October 27 and November 30,
\nin NATO traffic monitoring missions, part of a Standing NATO Maritime Group.
\nDuring the six weeks of the mission, the Romanian military ship also
\nparticipated in the multinational exercises Dogu Akdeniz 21,
\norganized by the Turkish Naval Forces, and NIRIIS 21, organized by
\nthe Greek Naval Forces, along with over 50 ships, 8 submarines and dozens of
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\nSunday called on the world to put an end to the current wrecking of
\ncivilization in a speech at a migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, FP reports.
\nThe Mediterranean is on its way to becoming a gloomy graveyard without
\ntombstones, said the sovereign pontiff, on his second visit to Lesbos since
\n2016. He lamented that little has changed with regard to the issue of
\nmigration. Yesterday, in a speech to
\nlocal authorities, the Sovereign Pontiff pleaded in Athens for a common
\nmigration policy in a ‘nationalism-torn’ Europe. It is the first visit by a
\nsovereign pontiff to the capital of Greece, a predominantly Orthodox country,
\nin the last two decades. Pope Francis went to Lesbos before, in 2016, but not to
\nAthens. He was thus following in the footsteps of John Paul II, who visited the
\nGreek capital in May 2001. He then apologized for the sins of Catholics against
\nthe Orthodox, referring to the plunder of Constantinople in 1204. Earlier, Pope
\nFrancis visited Cyprus, the EU state with the highest number of asylum
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\nwomen’s handball national team meets today, in Castello, the team of Kazakhstan,
\nin its second match in Group C of the World Championship hosted by Spain. The
\nRomanians started with a score victory, 39-11 with Iran, on Friday night.
\nRomania will play Norway on December 7. The first places in group C are held by
\nNorway and Romania with 2 points each, but with different goal averages,
\nfollowed by Kazakhstan and Iran both with 0 points. The top three will qualify
\nfor the next round of the final tournament. Romania, which has not missed any
\nworld final tournament, won the title in 1962, the silver medals in 1973 and
\n2005 and the bronze in 2015. Romania ranked 12th at the previous edition of the
\nWorld Championship, held in 2019, in Japan. <\/p>\n
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