This week the news was dominated by the pandemic. On Sunday more than one thousand anti-vaxxers gathered in front of parliament, the largest gathering to date. Timișoara and four neighbouring communities went into quarantine whereas new measures to prevent the spread of the corona virus went into effect in the capital on Monday. Authorities repealed a batch of AstraZeneca vaccins on Thursday. On the same day, Romania posted 5,236 new COVID-19 cases, the highest rate in over two months.

This and more in this week’s Romanian Dispatch’s coverage of the past seven days. If you like it, why not pass it on? New readers can subscribe here.

Romanian Dispatch #23 (March 6 — 12, 2021)