The National Committee for Emergency Situations (CNSU) updated the list of countries/territories with high epidemiological risk, in the case of which quarantine is imposed on persons arriving to Romania, with the Republic of Moldova, Armenia, Bulgaria, Belarus and Greenland entering the red zone.According to the CNSU decision, the red zone now includes, following an increase in the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate, Romania, the Republic of Moldova, Armenia, Bulgaria, Belarus and Greenland.Having entered the yellow zone, from the red zone, due to a decline in the incidence rate are: Austria, Switzerland, Gibraltar, Iran, Maldives and Bahamas, and from the green zone, due to an increase in the incidence rate: Ukraine, the Faroe Islands and Leshoto.The Netherlands, Germany, France, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Vietnam, Puerto Rico, Sri Lanka, Honduras, Kosovo and Cape Verde entered the green zone.The list comes into force on October 3, at midnight.At the same time, CNSU decided to exempt from the quarantine measure the freight truck and passenger transport drivers, if they present a RT-PCR negative test for the SARS-CoV-2 infection, conducted 72 hours prior to entering the country at the most, in the context of professional travel.
The number of people in Romania at risk of poverty stood at 3.59 million people in 2024, 375,000 fewer than in 2023, representing a 9.4% decrease, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics, or INS. Despite the improvement, nearly one in five Romanians was affected by poverty last year. According to INS, 19% […]
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Cluj-Napoca carried out multiple searches on Tuesday, July 1, at the Sibiu International Airport and the Sibiu County Council as part of an investigation into suspected fraud involving a EUR 54 million EU-funded infrastructure project. A total of 24 locations were searched across Bucharest, Brașov, and Sibiu county, […]
A Romanian taxi driver who scammed 90-year-old Nigerian Nobel Prize laureate Wole Soyinka was detained by police on Sunday, June 29, according to media reports. On Friday, June 27, the venerable Nigerian arrived at Bucharest's Otopeni Airport. He got into a taxi and asked to be taken to a hotel downtown. At the destination, the […]
Costin Șerban, a Romanian entrepreneur, is digitalizing the construction sector in the United Kingdom with an ERP (enterprise resource planning) solution developed over 12 years and an investment of GBP 1.6 million (EUR 1.86 million). Șerban’s cloud-based ERP platform is called Abilo, was developed by the Romanian IT company Obi Systems, and is dedicated to […]
Border checks between Bulgaria and Romania have officially been lifted on July 1, as part of the implementation of the Schengen Agreement. The lifting marks the end of the transitional period of heightened control at the internal border, which had remained in place for six months following their accession to the Schengen area by land […]
Remus Vulpescu became CEO of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) on Tuesday, July 1, taking over from Adrian Tănase as the stock exchange grapples with a market dominated by government bonds. Vulpescu, 53, is a graduate in political and legal sciences from the University of Bucharest and holder of an EMBA obtained in 2017. He […]
