Ongoing —
COVID-19 pandemic in Romania January • 1 January –
COVID-19 pandemic: The quarantine instated in the municipality of
Constanța on 20 November expires on 1 January, at 20:00
EET. • 3 January –
COVID-19 pandemic: The Matei Balș Institute suspects a person who recently returned to Romania to have the
British COVID-19 variant, now known as the Alpha variant. The Ministry of Health says that the variant has not yet been confirmed, since it requires the sequencing of the viral genome, starting from the probes selected after
real-time PCR testing is done. The Department for Emergency Situations (, DSU) says that no case has been confirmed on the territory of Romania so far. Two probes are collected from the suspected patient for testing. Romanian doctor Radu Țincu states that the suspected person did not recently go in the United Kingdom. • 8 January –
COVID-19 pandemic: The identity of the first case with the more contagious
British COVID-19 variant is confirmed to be a 27-year-old woman from
Giurgiu who showed up with minimal symptomatology at the "Matei Balș" Institute on 3 January, when she was hospitalised. • 18 January –
COVID-19 pandemic: The National Committee for Emergency Situations () decided to exempt those who had received a second dose of the
COVID-19 vaccine at least 10 days prior to their arrival in Romania from quarantine. It has also decided to release from quarantine the close contacts who had been in quarantine for 10 days, had gotten a negative COVID-19 test result on the 8th day, and did not present specific symptomatology. The people coming from the UK who have a confirmed infection no less than two weeks and no longer than 3 months prior to entering Romania, are not needed to present a COVID-19 test result upon on arrival. Quarantine can be temporarily suspended for essential reasons in the case of the people coming from epidemic risk countries. • 26 January: • At around 10:40
EET, a man tells the Bucharest Police () that there is an
explosive device inside the Bucharest Court of Appeal (). The building is evacuated, and all trials are suspended.
Elena Udrea is among the evacuated people, where she was participating in the last term of a trial regarding the financing of the election campaign of then-candidate
Traian Băsescu at the
2009 Presidential election. Later that day, the Bucharest Police announces that the
bomb threat was a fake one. The trial involving Elena Udrea resumes at 14:00 EET, on the same day. • The sitting prosecutor of the
National Anticorruption Directorate requests Elena Udrea to be sentenced to prison in the trial regarding the financing of Traian Băsescu's election campaign for the
2009 presidential election. She is accused of instigation to bribe taking and
money laundering, which means she could risk up to 12 years in jail. • 27 January – A
snowstorm in the region of
Northern Dobruja disrupts traffic on the
A2 motorway and some
national roads, as well as
electric power and
water supply, while 27 train services have been suspended. • 29 January – At about 5:00
EET,
a fire breaks out at the Prof. Dr. Matei Balș National Institute for Infectious Diseases of
Bucharest. According to secretary of state Raed Arafat, the first emergency call was made at 05:05, and the first crew arrived 8 minutes afterwards. 102
COVID-19 patients were evacuated and transferred to other pavilions of the hospital, or other hospitals from Bucharest. The cause of the fire is still unknown. The death toll of the fire was 17.
February • 8 February –
COVID-19 pandemic: New relaxation measures were taken as the epidemiogical situation continued to ameliorate. Schools partially or fully reopened around Romania, based on local incidence rates. • 11 February –
COVID-19 pandemic: The number of
vaccine doses administered nationwide exceeds 1 million. • 16 February – A fire breaks out in an apartment in the sixth floor of an apartment building in Mamaia Boulevard,
Constanța. A woman inside the affected apartment tries to escape the fire by leaving via the balcony window, and is afterwards found dead by the medics who tried to resuscitate her. • 17 February – A simple motion initiated by the
Social Democratic Party and supported by the
AUR against Minister of Health
Vlad Voiculescu fails, as a result of opposition from the member parties of the coalition forming
the government at that time (
PNL,
USR,
PLUS,
UDMR). • 17–22 February – Unpaid for ten months, 70 miners from the
Lupeni Coal Mine, located at the
Jiu Valley, protest by not leaving the mine for a few consecutive days. • 23 February –
COVID-19 pandemic: The death toll from COVID-19 passes 20,000 nationwide.
March • 1 March – Two workers who have been renovating an apartment in
Onești,
Bacău County, are killed by a former inhabitant of the apartment, who lost ownership of it 12 years prior to the incident as a result of a court decision. • 5 March –
COVID-19 pandemic: • The first two cases of the South African variant, the
Beta variant, were confirmed in Romania, in patients from
Bucharest and
Pitești respectively. • The National Committee for Emergency Situations adopted Decision number 15 which modifies the common agreement between the Ministries of Health and Education on the functioning of schools during the pandemic, so that students in 8th and 12th grades are allowed to participate physically in school no matter what, unless the locality the school is located in is quarantined. • 8 March –
COVID-19 pandemic: • The municipality of
Timișoara, largest city of
Banat, as well as some
communes surrounding it, enter
lockdown for a period of at least 14 days. • The first two cases of the
Brazilian variant are confirmed in Romania, both in
Bucharest. • 29 March – Protests against the
Romanian Government's response to the
COVID-19 pandemic escalate in
Bucharest and several other
cities. At Bucharest, shop windows, street furniture, bus stations and vending machines were vandalized, with the protest there eventually becoming violent. • 31 March –
COVID-19 pandemic: The
lockdown imposed on the
municipality of
Timișoara on 8 March was lifted at midnight.
April • 9 April – The Head of the Department for Emergency Situations
Raed Arafat and Health Minister
Vlad Voiculescu decided that the Foișor
Orthopedy Hospital of
Bucharest should only treat patients infected with
COVID-19 and that all patients admitted to the hospital should be evacuated as soon as possible, despite the hospital's management stating that it does not meet the criteria for it to become a COVID-19 ward. The decision had led to a protest at the hospital. The next day,
USR-PLUS asked that the hospital manager and the ASSMB leader be fired, blaming them for "slowing the process of turning the orthopedy hospital into a COVID hospital". • 10 April –
COVID-19 pandemic: The total number of cases nationwide exceeds 1 million. • 14 April – Prime Minister
Florin Cîțu fires Health Minister
Vlad Voiculescu, after multiple controversies throughout his almost four-month term in the
Cîțu Cabinet. Andreea Moldovan was fired as well from her position of secretary of state in the Ministry of Health, also by Cîțu. Deputy Prime Minister
Dan Barna, the co-president of
USR-PLUS, called the decision "politically unilateral and immature" and declared that the alliance forming part of the then-governing coalition no longer supports Cîțu as Prime Minister. Cîțu himself became Minister of Health as interim. • 16 April – The Court of Appeal of Bucharest legally recognizes the merger of the
Save Romania Union (USR) and the
Freedom, Unity and Solidarity Party (PLUS), the two parties conforming the
electoral alliance 2020 USR-PLUS Alliance, into one single new party known as USR-PLUS. This merger had been decided earlier on 15 August 2020 during an online
congress between the members of the two parties. The USR-PLUS will held a new congress in autumn 2021 to choose a new single leadership, with the presidents of both former parties,
Dan Barna (USR) and
Dacian Cioloș (PLUS), announcing that they will participate in the vote. • 20 April – A
MiG-21 aircraft of the
Romanian Air Force (RoAF) crashes in an uninhabited zone near
Dedrad in
Mureș County during a training flight. The aircraft took off from the
RoAF 71st Air Base at
Câmpia Turzii at around 14:00
EEST with the company of 2 other aircraft of the same type, with the pilot,
lieutenant commander Andrei Criste, later reporting an emergency and ejecting before the crash. The other aircraft returned to the base at around 15:00 EEST and an investigation about the incident was started, while the pilot was taken to a hospital in
Târgu Mureș, where he received authorization to be taken to another one in Bucharest. • 21 April –
Ioana Mihăilă, the proposition of USR-PLUS for the Ministry of Health is sworn in by president
Klaus Iohannis. She was previously secretary of state in the same Ministry, during the term of
Vlad Voiculescu. • 29 April –
COVID-19 pandemic: Romania reports its first cases of the
Delta COVID-19 strain, specifically of the B.1.617.2 sublineage, in an outbreak in
Brașov County. The strain is thought to be contributing to a surge of
COVID-19 infections in India that led to pressure on its healthcare system.
May • 5 May –
COVID-19 pandemic: Schools begin gradually reopening once again after a prolonged spring break, in conditions much closer to normalcy amid decreasing new infections. The number of scenarios in which they operate have been reduced to 2 instead of 3: below and above 1/1,000 inhabitants. For the first time,
special schools operate in their full capacity as long as the locality in which they are located in is not quarantined. This process ended on 10 May when students in the 8th and 12th grades returned to their classrooms. • 13 May –
COVID-19 pandemic: The government announced a series of further relaxation measures, including the lifting of the night
curfew and of the requirement of wearing face masks in uncrowded outdoor public areas. They took effect on 15 May. • 25 May –
Ludovic Orban, the president of the
PNL announced the election calendar for all National Liberal Party branches, as part of a party congress voted to be held on 25 September. He said that there will be a time period of 45 days, between 10 August and 25 September, for the congress campaign. He also stated that the way the congress is going to be held will depend on how the
pandemic plays out. • 26 May • The
Parliament of Romania ratifies decision 2020/2053 of the
Council of the European Union from 14 December 2020 on the
Euratom with a bill. 378 votes were cast in favour of the bill. On the same day, the
Chamber of Deputies approves a bill meant to turn the period between 6 and 31 December a holiday dedicated to
Romanian carolling. The bill was initiated by
Bogdan Gheorghiu, the Romanian
Minister of Culture, and
PNL senator
Alina Gorghiu. • A 4.7 Richter magnitude earthquake is registered at 00:30, in
Buzău County. With a depth of 128 kilometres, the earthquake was felt in the capital city of Romania,
Bucharest. • 27 May • The minister of
interior of Romania,
Lucian Bode, announces a capture of 2850 new
revolvers found in 143 boxes hidden in a furniture transport, on the evening of 24 September, at the border crossing to
Isaccea. The truck was driven by a Ukrainian driver, with the destination from
Turkey to
Ukraine. • The
Government of Romania launches 11 videos to urge people to get
vaccinated.
Florin Cîțu, the prime minister of Romania, said that the government paid no money for the video campaign. • A
Paykan Hillman Hunter from 1974, gifted by the
Shah of Iran to former Romanian communist leader
Nicolae Ceaușescu is offered for auction. • 29 May – Aurel Crișan, a 66-year-old businessman, is murdered in a car explosion in front of a
Profi store on Aurel Vlaicu boulevard in
Arad. The first hypothesis is that the
bomb was controlled remotely. The
SRI is excluding the hypothesis that the bombing was a
terroristic threat. • 31 May –
COVID-19 pandemic: A significant amount of protesters in the Victoriei Square request for the suspension of the
vaccination campaign for people that are not at least 18 years old. Their reasons include that "the
COVID-19 vaccine is still in clinical studies", that "no student/pupil physically going to school spread the coronavirus", and that "there's no enough information regarding adverse reactions".
June • 1 June –
COVID-19 pandemic: Even more relaxation measures take effect. Gatherings of maximum 50 people in indoor areas and of maximum 70 people in outdoor areas became possible for private and cultural-artistic events. For the first time,
vaccinated people are prioritized when it comes to such measures (however people who had COVID-19 in the past 90 days from infection or with a negative test can also get access to certain tasks); for such people, public areas have a bigger capacity, while clubs and bars have reopened. • 4 June – The general school inspector of
Bucharest, Ionel Pușcaș, was fired by the Education Minister
Sorin Cîmpeanu over an incident at the "George Bacovia" School in
Sector 4 where a pupil in the 6th grade left the building through a window in the 1st floor due to aggression, after the inspector called it an "ordinary play". • 15 June –
Marcel Ciolacu, president of the
Social Democratic Party accuses the
USR-PLUS and
National Liberal Party of fraud in a vote in the
Chamber of Deputies involving a simple motion against Minister of European Funds
Cristian Ghinea in an attempt to keep him incumbent by including the votes cast from tablets, which Article 126 of the Regulation of the Chamber of Deputies only allows for normative acts. The motion would have passed if the votes cast from tablets were not included, according to the PSD and the
AUR. • 19 June – A
cyclone formed in the
Black Sea affects the eastern part of Romania, with floods reported in multiple localities. The city of
Galați and the commune of
Biliești,
Vrancea County were among the most affected by the cyclone. Among the
Romanian road network, the
Bacău –
Onești section of the DN11 (
E574) was also notably affected, collapsing on a 100-metre segment. The water in the
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children's hospital of
Iași. However, unlike other hospital fires in Romania since the
Piatra Neamț hospital fire, no one was carbonised but several patients were evacuated. The hospital had an electric installation dating from 1970 and had been under renovation works two years prior. • 23 June – The
Social Democratic Party submits the text of a
vote of no confidence aimed against the
Cîțu Cabinet, named "FAILED Romania. The 'fantastic' record of the Cîțu Government" ().
Sorin Grindeanu, first vice president of the
PSD accuses the government of being a danger to Romanians and Romanian businesses, of having frozen pensions and
allowances and that it had brought the national Recovery and Resilience Plan (, PNRR) disastrous reforms. • 27 June • Partial local elections take place in 36 localities. In all but one of them, a
commune of the
Dâmbovița County (where the elections involved the Local Council), the inhabitants have elected a new mayor. The
Social Democratic Party won in half of the 36 localities. •
COVID-19 pandemic: The capital city of
Bucharest reports no cases in a day for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic. • 29 June – The
motion of no-confidence known as "FAILED Romania. The 'fantastic' record of the Cîțu Government" () and aimed against the
Cîțu Cabinet July , as seen during the July 2021 explosion. • 2 July – 1 dead and 5 injured after an explosion at
Petromidia Refinery, the largest Romanian
oil refinery, in
Năvodari,
Constanța County. • 15 July – The
Giurgiu Court admits request of former president of the
Social Democratic Party Liviu Dragnea for conditional release from prison, ending 2 years and 2 months of jail that began on 27 May 2019. • 23 July – A state of alert was imposed in
Sector 1 of
Bucharest by the prefecture of the capital, at the request of Sector 1 mayor
Clotilde Armand, on the grounds of lots of uncollected waste due to the refusal by her administration to pay bills issued by Romprest, the sanitation operator of Sector 1. • 27 July –
Roșia Montană becomes a
UNESCO World Heritage Site, 4 years and a half since proceedings began for the listing.
August September • 1 September –
A major political crisis begins in Romania as Prime Minister
Florin Cîțu fires Justice Minister
Stelian Ion after a dispute between
PNL and
USR PLUS on the so-called Anghel Saligny investment program (or "PNDL 3"). • 3 September –
2021 Romanian political crisis: USR PLUS, together with the opposition party
AUR, submits the motion of no confidence "The firing of the Cîțu Government, the only chance for Romania to live!" aimed against the
Cîțu Cabinet. • 8 September –
2021 Romanian political crisis: President of Romania
Klaus Iohannis signs the resignations of the
USR PLUS ministers who were in the
Cîțu Cabinet, replacing them with acting ministers from
PNL and UDMR. • 25 September – Incumbent President of the
National Liberal Party Ludovic Orban loses to Prime Minister
Florin Cîțu in an internal election for the party presidency held within a
congress with 5000 party delegates. • 28 September –
2021 Romanian political crisis: The
Social Democratic Party (PSD) submits its own motion of no confidence aimed against the Cîțu Cabinet, entitled "STOP poverty, price increases and criminals! Down with the Cîțu Government!", the second in less than a month after that of USR–AUR.
October • 1 October: •
A fire breaks out in the Constanța Hospital for Infectious Diseases in Constanța, leaving 7 deaths. •
Dacian Cioloș of
PLUS was elected as the sole president of
USR PLUS, whose name would revert to
USR. • 5 October –
2021 Romanian political crisis: The PSD's "STOP poverty, price increases and criminals! Down with the Cîțu Government!" motion of no confidence passes with 281 votes "for", the largest number of votes since the
Romanian Revolution. Consequently, the
Cîțu Cabinet was dissolved. • 11 October –
2021 Romanian political crisis: President
Klaus Iohannis nominates USR president
Dacian Cioloș as Prime Minister-designate. • 21 October –
2021 Romanian political crisis: As a result of Cioloș's cabinet failing to pass the parliament, President Iohannis nominates
Nicolae Ciucă as Prime Minister-designate, the second in less than 60 days.
November • 23 November –
2021 President of the Senate of Romania election • 25 November –
2021 Romanian political crisis: The
Ciucă Cabinet, a
PSD–PNL–UDMR grand coalition government, is sworn in to office, ending the crisis.
December • 20 December – A several-hour strike by the employees of the
CFR suspends more than 100 train journeys and activity of over 50 railway stations in Romania. They protested the low salaries and the fact the law on the status of railway staff does not apply. The CFR's director, Ion Simu, called the strike a "spontaneous illegal protest". ==Sports==