March 23, 2020

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Newsroom, 23.03.2020, 14:15

TOLL Another Romanian has been killed
by the new coronavirus raising the death toll in this country to four. 433
persons have been declared infected with the virus in Romania. Out of them 64
have been cured and left hospitals. The patients’ average age is 41. 8 Romanians
have been killed by the disease abroad, 7 in Italy and one in France. As of
Sunday night the Romanian authorities have banned circulation, asking people to
remain indoors between 22 and 6 hours in order to limit the outbreak.
Circulation will be allowed only for people traveling to their jobs and for
shopping. Authorities are recommending that people strictly limit trips during daytime.

TESTS China is carrying out its first
medical tests over a vaccine against the new coronavirus against the background
of international efforts to find a way of containing the outbreak. At present
there is no vaccine or approved treatment against COVID 19, which has so far
infected over 341 thousand people in nearly 200 countries and territories and
killed 14,500 all over the world, most of them in Italy. Experimental medical
studies will be carried out on 32 hundred patients in several European
countries, the Health Ministry in France has announced. The situation is
worsening in the USA, where over 10 thousand fresh cases have been registered
of late placing the country on the third position of the most affected
countries after China and Italy. South Korea has declared the smallest number
of infections after the peak was reached in this country four weeks ago.

MINISTER Romanian Prime Minister Ludovic Orban is today taking a second
test for the new coronavirus. If the test is negative, the Prime Minister will
be out of the quarantine period of 14 days and resume activity at the
government. Orban took his first test on March 13th after having
come into contact with senator Vergil Chitac during a National Liberal Party’s
session on March 9. Although the Prime Minister’s first test was negative, but
he was placed in quarantine and worked from home.

GAMES A decision to postpone the Olympic Games in Tokyo could become
inevitable in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, which prevents the staging
of the event in safe conditions, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has today
admitted. The Japanese official has reiterated that his country remains
committed to staging the aforementioned competition in the best conditions.
Last week UEFA decided to postpone for a year the European Championship of 2020
due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Bucharest would stage four games in the
competition, three in the groups and one in the round of 16. Romania still
stands chances to qualify by means of the Nations League play-off due to take
place in June. Romania will be playing Iceland in an away game and if
qualified, it would play the winner of the match pitching Hungary against
Bulgaria.

(translated by bill)