Monday, March 15-th

The third stage of the National Anti-COVID Immunization Campaign begins on Monday

The 3-rd stage of the National Anti-COVID Immunization Campaign begins today, and from 9:00 a.m. the lists for programming the general population will start to be available. The National Committee for Vaccination announced that the lists will be opened successively in the alphabetical order of the counties. From 9:00 the ones with names starting with A, B or C, after 11:00 the counties with the letters from D to P, and after 13:00 the Capital, Ilfov county and those whose names start with the letters S, T and V. Priority will continue to be given to the categories in the second stage, ie the elderly and the chronically ill, followed by the essential workers./opopescu

The new alert status has come into force

The new alert status, imposed in order to control the coronavirus pandemic, has come into force. Traffic during the night is restricted, now, from 22:00 to 5:00, not from 23:00, as before. The tourist units in the mountain area can be occupied at most 70% of the maximum capacity./opopescu

The capital and six other counties are in the red zone

The capital, Bucharest, and six counties are now in the red zone, with more than 3 cases of COVID-19 per thousand inhabitants, accumulated in 14 days: Braşov, Cluj, Hunedoara, Ilfov, Sălaj and Timiş. 4,383 new infections were confirmed yesterday, meaning 1,000 more than the figure announced a week ago. The positive rate was over 21%, and over a quarter of the new cases were registered in Bucharest. Another 44 deaths from coronavirus infection have been reported. There are currently over 10,800 in hospitals, of which 1,232 at Intensive Care units. The situation is similar to what happened at the end of last year./opopescu