January 29, 2021 UPDATE

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FIRE A fire that ripped through the Bucharest-based Institute for Infectious Diseases 'Matei Bals' killed five patients on Friday. Several wards burned down in the fire and heavy smoke spread throughout the building. 120 patients were evacuated and transferred to other medical units. So far the cause of the fire remains unknown, but prosecutors have launched a manslaughter investigation. The country's President, Klaus Iohannis has conveyed condolences to the victims' families. According to Prime Minister Florin Citu all measures have been taken to bring the situation under control. The Prime Minister's Office inquiry team is already conducting its own investigation but Social-Democratic leader Marcel Ciolacu said he felt shocked, heartbroken and appalled with the Government's lack of action to make sure the tragedy at Piatra Neamţ must not happen again. We recall that fire killed 10 at the Emergency County Hospital in Piatra Neamt, northeastern Romania in November.


PROSECUTORS The Romanian Ministry of Justice on Friday selected six candidates for the position of EPPO delegate prosecutor in Romania. The candidates are Dana-Manuela Ana, Camelia-Elena Grecu, Constantin Irina and Jean-Nicolae Uncheselu - all four from the National Anti-corruption Direction, Dana-Cristina Bunea from the Prosecutor's Office with the High Court of Cassation and Justice and Florin Bogdan Munteanu from the Court in Iasi, north-eastern Romania. The prosecutors will be working for the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) in their home countries and will have the same responsibilities as national prosecutors in terms of investigations, criminal actions and prosecution. The EPPO will also investigate fraud and other crimes infringing on the EU's financial interests. EPPO will also be investigating crimes with EU-wide effects or crimes perpetrated by civil servants or members of European institutions. We recall Romanian Laura Codruța Kovesi is the head of the European Public Prosecutor's Office.


COVID 2,737 new Covid-19 infections were registered in Romania in the past 24 hours after more than 31 thousand tests had been carried out nationwide, the Strategic Communication Group announced on Friday. Roughly 8 thousand of those infected are presently being treated in hospitals and 996 of them in IC units. Over 723 thousand have been infected in Romania since the outbreak and about 90% of them have been cured. The vaccination campaign carries on in Romania with more than half million immunized but the Health Minister Vlad Voiculescu says the country has less vaccine doses than it needs. According to the minister, the centres, which have immunized people from outside the eligible categories, are going to face sanctions.


PANDEMIC The COVID-19 infection rate remains high on the continent, putting pressure on medical systems, which is why a relaxation of restrictions would be premature, the WHO Director for Europe, Hans Kluge, has said. The WHO official believes the high rates of infection and the emergence of new strains of the coronavirus have stressed the need for urgently immunizing top-priority categories of people, but the rate of production and distribution of vaccines has fallen short of expectations, for the time being. The vaccination process has started in 35 European states, Director Kluge argues, and some 25 million shots have already been administered. The UK is the first European country to start a national anti-COVID vaccination campaign. In other states, such as the Seychelles, Iceland or Cyprus, authorities announced they would renounce testing and quarantine for travelers who present an international vaccine certificate. Over 102 million infections have been reported globally since the start of the epidemic and over 2.2 million people have died to the virus, the latest worldometers.info update reveals.

(bill)



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