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Romania reintroduces mandatory face mask wearing in outdoor and indoor public spaces; reduces the operating hours and capacity of bars, restaurants, cinemas, gyms, and sporting events; and also reduces the quarantine period, amidst concern that the next wave of COVID-19 could overwhelm the health system.
2022-01-8

Romania reports a record 331 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 38,260.
2021-10-6

Romania reports a record 237 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 26,618.
2021-04-20

Romania reports its first two cases of the 501.V2 variant first detected in South Africa in people from Bucharest and Pitești.
2021-03-5

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 records 7,733 new cases, as well as 120 deaths. It is the highest jump in the number of cases and the deadliest day since the start of the pandemic in the country.
2020-11-3

The number of new cases since the beginning of the pandemic in Romania rises by a record of 5,028 in the past 24 hours, as new restrictions are introduced in Bucharest and other cities.
2020-10-23

Romania surpasses 2,000 deaths from COVID-19 and sets a daily record of 889 new cases.
2020-07-18

Romania reports the country's first death from COVID-19, a 67-year-old man from the town of Filiași.
2020-03-22