The pace of the vaccination campaign is slowing. At the same time the ICU capacity is overstretched with corona patients. The nationalist AUR managed to mobilise people on the streets throughout Romania all week protesting against the COVID-19 measures. Yet the fact that a few hundred protestors showed up in the capital and elsewhere should not be interpreted as a sign that there is not sufficient support for the restrictions to get us out of the pandemic.

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 #26 (March 27 — April 2, 2021)