The Timisoara International Airport is resuming flights to UK, Spain and Belgium
The Timisoara International Airport in Romania is resuming flights to the United Kingdom, Spain and Belgium, as of Tuesday, July 7th, after updating the list of countries deemed safe for travel, during the coronavirus pandemic. Flights to Luton, Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia and Brussels Charleroi are scheduled on Tuesday and Wednesday. Timisoara Airport has started operating flights to destinations in Germany, Italy and France as of June. The authorities have updated the list of the so-called „green” countries – whose citizens are not required to go into isolation or quarantine after entering Romania. The country is also resuming today air travel to and from 32 European countries and another 12 countries from other continents.
The Hungarian President has wrote to his Ukrainian and Romanian counterparts to deplore the waste on rivers
The Hungarian President, Janos Ader, has written a letter to his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky and to the Romanian President, Klaus Iohannis, asking them to use their influence in order to stop pollution on Tisza and Szamos rivers. The letters which were published on Tuesday on the president’s website say that flooding in recent weeks have brought a new and huge quantity of plastic bottles and other waste on Hungarian territory, which poses an epidemiological danger, hampers tourism and fishing and also has a harming effect on the fragile ecosystem of the rivers. The letter also states that Tisza has brought around 2,258 cubic meters of solid waste this year and the Hungarian machines have taken out of the river 938 cubic meters of mixt waste, while 846 cubic meters of waste have been removed from the Samosz – a quantity that the Hungarian machines can no longer cope with. „It is disappointing that pollution of the Tisza river with waste has not been reduced … and poses a lasting threat to the fragile ecosystem of the river,” Ader said in the letter to Zelenskiy.
The Romanian government has promised a law to regulate the quarantine for people infected with coronavirus
The Romanian authorities have reported almost 400 coronavirus cases on Monday, which is close to the daily level recorded at the peak of the outbreak in April. Although the country has made wearing a mask mandatory in public and has prohibited large gatherings, beaches at the Black Sea have been packed and almost nobody respects the restrictions, which is a problem, because placing people into quarantine is no longer compulsory, according to a Constitutional Court decision. The Court decided that the fundamental rights of the citizens could only be restricted based on a law passed in parliament and not by means of a ministerial decree. Consequently, the legal basis of enforcing quarantine has become void and nobody could be kept into hospital or quarantine against his will. This apply both to infected people or individuals that have come into contact with an infected person or have come from a country badly affected by the pandemic. It is not the first time when epidemiological measures are thwarted due to political and judicial reasons.
Mădălina Brotăcel, RADOR
