Prime Minister Florin Cîţu says that if Romanians get vaccinated, the country could return to normal starting the end of July. He ruled out a lockdown despite hospitals facing record number of patients. In Timișoara dozens of people gathered to protest an anti-corona measures demonstration during which xenophobic slogans were shouted. And a new IMF forecast predicts a whopping six percent economic growth for Romania this year.

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 #27 (April 3 — 9, 2021)