On Sunday the state of alert was prolonged for another month. And a new restriction on travel between 10 pm and 5 am was introduced in an attempt to control ever increasing corona infections. But there is also good news, including a historical high on the Bucharest stock exchange and the first Oscar nominations for a Romanian feature film.

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 #24 (March 13 — 19, 2021)