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Romania imposes a nationwide curfew from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. and makes face masks mandatory in all public venues in an attempt to reduce the number of COVID-19 cases. The country also begins to implement a mandatory green certificate for shopping malls, restaurants, public institutions and workplaces. 2021-10-25
Romania reports a record 15,037 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1,289,156. 2021-10-5
Georgia receives 43,200 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford. 2021-07-10
Romania reports its first case of the Lineage B.1.617 variant first detected in India in a person from Brașov County. 2021-04-29
Romania begins a vaccination campaign against COVID-19 using the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine tozinameran. The first person vaccinated is a 26-year-old doctor from Bucharest. 2020-12-27
Romania imposes a nationwide nighttime curfew and closes all schools for 30 days beginning November 9 after the number of daily infections surges over the past two weeks. All shops will close by 9:00 p.m. and people will have to stay home from 11:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. local time. It also widens the compulsory use of face masks to all outdoor spaces across the country and orders all indoor farm produce markets to close. 2020-11-6
Romania reports a record high of 1,356 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. 2020-07-30
Georgia reports its first death from COVID-19; that of a 79-year-old woman who had other illnesses and underlying health conditions. 2020-04-4
Armenia declares a state of emergency lasting until April 14 to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The emergency measures include the closure of all educational institutions, closing the borders with Georgia and Iran, banning gatherings with over 20 people, and postponing the 2020 Armenian constitutional referendum. 2020-03-16