Romania sees a slow, steady and progressive rise of the COVID-19 new cases
Romania sees a slow, steady and progressive rise of the COVID-19 new cases, announced yesterday the coordinator of the National Vaccination Campaign, Valeriu Gheorghiţă. He reminded that the worst case scenarios show that in the second half of next months numbers could reach 1,500 new cases a day. Valeriu Gheorghiţă reminded that vaccination is the only way to end the pandemic.
The Coordinator of the Vaccination Campaign, Valeriu Gheorghiţă, announced that the analysis over age groups shows a rise in the number of young people, under 40, who get COVID-19. Also, the average age of people confirmed with coronavirus tends to fall, 43 compared to 48, as it used to be. The average age of reported deaths is also falling – 69, from 71. Valeriu Gheorgiţă also said that worse scenarios predict around 1,500 cases a day in the second half of September. For that reason, Valeriu Gheorghiţă reiterated that vaccination is the only way that people can be protected against severe forms of the disease and the best way to stop de pandemic.
326 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed on Wednesday, after processing almost 29,000 tests. This is the highest number of infections since the middle of June. In the last 24 hours, eight people died because of the coronavirus. 710 people are hospitalized in the country, for COVID-19.
Romanian Police has launched an awareness campaign regarding the risks of excessive speed
The Romanian Police has launched yesterday an awareness campaign regarding the risks of excessive speed, called „A View From the Hospital”. Police officers have placed a hospital bed at a gas station on the Sun Highway, where the campaign was launched, to draw attention to risks taken by drivers who step on it too much, to get on the beach faster.
Authorities from the Interior Minister have made some proposals, after realizing that the Highway code does not include chicanery or aggressive driving. Paul Gavriş is deputy chief of the Traffic Police.
Paul Gavriș: We have noted that it is necessary to intervene and make a series of proposals to introduce this aggressive behavior, that we could define in two maneuvers: certain chicanery while driving, using the optical system or the horn excessively to determine the other participants to move from the traffic lane, driving at a very small distance, in front of a car, behind it or on the side.
Also, among the proposals to change the Highway Code is doubling the period of license suspension from 60 days, at the present, to 120 days, for those who drive on the highway in the opposite direction.
The government approved supplementing the number of foreign workers that can be hired in Romania
The government has approved today supplementing the number of foreign workers, from outside of the EU, that can work in Romania in 2021. The number agreed at the end of 2020 will be practically doubled and, therefore, 50.000 new workers can be admitted on the labor market. The decision has been taken following a rise in the requests for hiring visas, but also of the vacant jobs declared by the employers, says the Minister of Labor in a declaration. Data from ANOFM show that, compared to the first five months of last year – when approximately 156.000 jobs were vacant – in the same period of this year 160,000 jobs have been vacant, among which 30,000 repeatedly reported by the employers. According to data from the General Inspectorate for Immigration, in the first half of 2021 more than 17,000 hiring certificates have been released in sectors that cannot be covered by Romanian workers./aionita
Alexandra Ionita, RADOR
