{"id":105560,"date":"2021-12-10T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/december-10-2021-update-105560.html"},"modified":"2024-02-15T21:02:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T19:02:02","slug":"december-10-2021-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/december-10-2021-update-id105560.html","title":{"rendered":"December 10, 2021 UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>COVID-19. <\/strong><span style=font-size: 1em;>Romania on Friday reported 931 daily Covid infections and 97 related&#13;<br \/>\nfatalities, of which 25 from an earlier date. In the capital Bucharest, the&#13;<br \/>\nincidence rate dropped to 1.1 cases per 1,000 inhabitants, after peaking at&#13;<br \/>\nover 16 a month and a half ago. Three cases of Omicron infection have so far&#13;<br \/>\nbeen recorded in Romania. The state of alert was extended on Thursday by&#13;<br \/>\nanother 30 days, although the government lifted a number of restrictions, amid&#13;<br \/>\ndecreasing Covid infection numbers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>Travel. <\/strong>From&#13;<br \/>\nFriday, all arrivals in Romania from non-EU countries must present a negative&#13;<br \/>\nPCR test for COVID-19 taken within the last 48 hours. People who haven&#8217;t taken&#13;<br \/>\nthe vaccine and who haven&#8217;t had the disease, but have a negative test result,&#13;<br \/>\nwill be asked to isolate for 10 days. If they don&#8217;t present a negative test&#13;<br \/>\nresult, they will have to isolate for 14 days. Rules differ in the case of travellers&#13;<br \/>\narriving from other EU countries, who need to present the green certificate&#13;<br \/>\nattesting vaccination, recovery from the infection in the last 180 days or a&#13;<br \/>\nnegative test result taken within the previous 72 hours. The rules apply to&#13;<br \/>\nRomanian and foreign citizens alike.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>NATO.&#13;<br \/>\n<\/strong>President Klaus Iohannis called for an increased military presence on NATO&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\neastern flank in order to respond to Russia&#8217;s provocations. The Romanian&#13;<br \/>\npresident and other European leaders consulted with US President, Joe Biden, in&#13;<br \/>\nthe Bucharest Nine format. The White House leader briefed European presidents on&#13;<br \/>\nhis recent talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. He promised NATO&#13;<br \/>\nmembers in Europe additional military capabilities and reiterated the US&#8217;s firm&#13;<br \/>\ncommitment to Article 5 of the NATO Treaty. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>Forum. <\/strong>NATO&#13;<br \/>\nDeputy Secretary General Mircea Geoan\u0103 on Friday said that the Black Sea region&#13;<br \/>\nis seeing intense geopolitical competition and that NATO and its partners are&#13;<br \/>\ntaking measures to boost deterrence, defence and resilience. He made these&#13;<br \/>\nstatements on day two of the Bucharest Forum 2021 an event organised by Aspen&#13;<br \/>\nInstitute Romania. Mircea Geoan\u0103 also congratulated Romania for having been&#13;<br \/>\nselected to host the European Center for Cybersecurity, which in addition to&#13;<br \/>\nhosting the Euro-Atlantic Resilience Center will help promote Romania as a&#13;<br \/>\ncompetitive and innovative economy and society. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>Government. <\/strong>The Romanian government&#13;<br \/>\non Friday adopted an emergency order regulating the institutional framework,&#13;<br \/>\nthe financial flows and the verification of the use of the funds allocated to&#13;<br \/>\nRomania under the Recovery and Resilience Plan. Romania will soon receive the&#13;<br \/>\nrest of 1.95 billion euros of the loan granted under the plan, said the&#13;<br \/>\nminister for investments and European projects Dan V\u00eelceanu. Last week,&#13;<br \/>\nthe European Commission transferred to Romania a first tranche of 1.8 billion&#13;<br \/>\neuros worth of grants. Romania is entitled to over 29 billion euros under its&#13;<br \/>\nplan, of which 14.2 billion worth of grants and 14.9 billion euros worth of&#13;<br \/>\nloans. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>Exhibition.<\/strong> A photographic exhibition&#13;<br \/>\nbringing together photographers from Romania and Japan opened in Oradea, in&#13;<br \/>\nnorth-western Romania, as part of the 100th anniversary of diplomatic&#13;<br \/>\nrelations between the two countries. The opening was attended by the Japanese&#13;<br \/>\nambassador to Romania Hiroshi Ueda, as well as prominent local figures and&#13;<br \/>\nrepresentatives of Japanese businesses in Romania. The event is a unique&#13;<br \/>\nopportunity to promote the economic life, culture and tourism in Oradea and the&#13;<br \/>\nBihor region, said Stefan Toth, the president of Euro, Foto, Art Association,&#13;<br \/>\nwhich organised the exhibition together with Japan Danube Photoclub Yokohama and&#13;<br \/>\nunder the patronage of the Japanese Embassy. The Romanian-Japanese exhibition will&#13;<br \/>\nalso travel to Japan next year. <span style=font-size: 1em;>(CM)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A roundup of local and international news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":105208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[33260,35386,13794],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-105560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsflash","tag-b9","tag-covid","tag-nato"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>December 10, 2021 UPDATE - Radio Romania International<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/december-10-2021-update-id105560.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"December 10, 2021 UPDATE - 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