Over 56,000 Ukrainian citizens have entered Romania since the start of the Russian invasion
56,000 Ukrainian citizens have entered Romania since the start of the Russian invasion, and half of them, about 28,000, are in the country, according to official data released yesterday. Nearly 370,000 Ukrainians fleeing the war have entered neighboring countries these days, the UN said. The EU’s interior ministers discussed yesterday the possibility of providing temporary protection to Ukrainian refugees, using a 2001 directive that would allow them to stay and work for up to three years in the European Union. The European Commissioner for Internal Affairs has said that the Union must be prepared for millions of arrivals. She will visit the Romanian-Ukrainian border this morning, and then the Slovak one./opopescu
Ylva Johansson is visiting the mobile humanitarian aid camp at the Siret Border Crossing Point
The European Commissioner for Internal Affairs, Ylva Johansson, is in Suceava County, visiting the mobile humanitarian aid camp at the Siret Border Crossing Point. The camp, which has a capacity of 400 seats, was set up by Romanian authorities to aid Ukrainian refugees. According to a press release from the European Union executive, the commissioner will later travel to Bucharest, where she will meet President Klaus Iohannis and Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă, as well as the Minister of Internal Affairs, Lucian Bode./opopescu
Over 4,000 new cases of COVID have been confirmed in Romania in the last 24 hours
4,757 new cases of COVID have been confirmed in Romania in the last 24 hours, according to data provided by the authorities, and another 61 people have died as a result of infection. Four of the deaths are older. The incidence rate returned to the downward trend in the capital and today reached 22.05 cases of COVID per thousand inhabitants after the indicator had increased yesterday compared to the previous day./opopescu
