The Bucharest Municipality Committee for Emergency Situations (CMBSU) decided, in Friday's meeting, that the access to restaurants and other locations should be made starting Saturday with the COVID green certificate.On Friday, in Bucharest, the cumulative incidence of COVID-19 cases in the last 14 days is 3.77 per thousand inhabitants.According to the CMBSU decision, the certification of vaccination, testing or cure of SARS-CoV-2 virus infection is performed through the digital certificates of the European Union on COVID-19. The organizers / economic operators that carry out their activity according to the CMBSU decision have the obligation to scan the QR code on the green certificate.In the case of natural persons from states whose authorities do not issue green certificates or documents compatible with them, the organizers / economic operators have the obligation to verify the existence of documents, on paper or in electronic format, attesting the vaccination, testing or cure of the infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus of these citizens.The obligation to present the negative result of an RT-PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 virus infection, not older than 72 hours, or the certified negative result of a rapid antigen test for SARS-CoV-2 virus infection, no older than 48 hours, does not apply to persons under 12 years of age. The cumulated incidence of COVID-19 cases in the past 14 days increased to 4.1 per thousand persons on Saturday in Bucharest.The value was communicated by the Public Health Directorate (DSP), informed the deputy prefect of Bucharest, Antonela Ghita.The day before, Friday, the COVID incidence was of 3.77 per thousand persons.
Update: Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan won the Romanian presidential election on May 18, according to the official vote count. With 98.5% of the ballots counted, Nicusor Dan had 54.17% of the votes, 900,000 more than his opponent, nationalist George Simion. A record turnout both in the country and abroad helped Dan come back from 1.88 million […]
Romanians showed up in record numbers to vote in the second round of the presidential elections, both in the country and abroad. The exit poll results presented on Sunday evening pointed to a strong lead for Bucharest’s pro-EU mayor Nicusor Dan (54%-46%), but are only relevant for the domestic vote. Both candidates claimed victory in […]
Romanians showed up in large numbers to vote in the second round of the country’s presidential elections, one of the most important democratic tests Romania has seen in the last three decades. At 14:00, exactly halfway through the voting process in the country, over 5.63 million Romanians have cast their votes, compared with 4.52 million […]
Romanians abroad have mobilized massively to vote in the second round of the country’s presidential elections. Update: By Sunday afternoon (15:00 Bucharest time), over 1.2 million Romanians have voted abroad for the country's next president. That's some 220,000 more votes than the overall total in the first round. The countries with the largest turnout are […]
Romanians abroad have mobilized massively to vote in the second round of the country’s presidential elections. The vote in Diaspora started on Friday morning, and by Saturday evening (at 19:00), over 609,000 Romanians had already cast their votes. The turnout is almost 90% higher than the one recorded at the same time in the first […]
It's almost impossible to think about anything not related to elections this weekend but if you should need some distraction, there are options. Happening now is the European Film Festival, screening recent productions from the continent, very varied in theme, tone, and genre. The fest is playing Bucharest, Sfântu Gheorghe and Timișoara until Sunday and […]
