The National Committee for Emergency Situations (CNSU) has updated the list of countries / territories with high epidemiological risk. According to CNSU, Hungary and the Czech Republic enter the red zone, while Israel goes green, following the decrease in incidence. The red zone included: The Czech Republic, Hungary, Denmark, Iceland, Luxembourg, the Maldives and the Cayman Islands; The yellow area included: -from the red zone, following the decrease in incidence: United States of America and Saint Kitts and Nevis; -in the green zone, following the increase in incidence: Poland, Norway, San Marino and Andorra; The green area included: Israel, Cuba, Costa Rica, Guyana, Bahamas, Grenada, Sint Maarten, Antigua and Barbuda and the US Virgin Islands. People who come from the yellow zone are not quarantined if they are vaccinated against COVID-19, have gone through the disease or have a PCR test, not older than 72 hours. If a person comes from the red zone, they are either vaccinated or sick or quarantined. The test no longer exempts people from quarantine. The quarantine measure applies for 14 days, but the provision that if a quarantined person takes a COVID-19 test on the eighth day of quarantine and the result is negative, he can leave the quarantine on the tenth day.
Ukraine's Security Service has banned Diana Șoșoacă, the leader of the far-right party SOS Romania, from entering the country due to her repeated anti-Ukrainian and pro-Russian statements. The entry ban is valid for three years, according to the official announcement. The Ukrainian Security Service said Șoșoacă supports the Russian war against Ukraine and questions Ukraine's […]
The Hanwha Group, a major South Korean arms manufacturer, intends to build an arms factory in Romania's southern Dâmbovița county within two years, with the prospect of it becoming a regional hub for systems, maintenance, and repairs. The announcement was made by Michael Coulter, CEO of Hanwha Global Defense, during a meeting with Romanian journalists. "In […]
The 10th edition of the Jazz in the Church festival will be held at the Lutheran Church in Bucharest from May 8 to 11, 2025, featuring a mix of artists recognized for their contributions to European jazz, as well as new artists. Among the major names on the lineup are Swiss artist Nik Bärtsch and […]
The famous Constanța Casino on the Romanian Black Sea coast has been fully restored and will be officially handed over to the Constanța City Hall in the coming days, the Ministry of Development has announced. The final inspection for the completion of the restoration work is scheduled for March 20, marking the last step before […]
Romania is one of five countries - alongside Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, and Slovakia - where the executive has "deliberately undermined the rule of law in almost every aspect," according to a report by the Civil Liberties Union for Europe, or Liberties. Liberties launched its annual exercise in 2019 to track the European Commission’s rule-of-law reports, […]
Artiss Gallery is set to open a new exhibition, Temporal Harmonies: From Classical to Contemporary in Visual Art, at the Noblesse Palace in Bucharest on March 26. The event will feature a diverse selection of works from iconic classical painters like Theodor Aman to internationally recognized contemporary artists such as Adrian Ghenie. The exhibition highlights […]
