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Croatia's Luka Modric, right, celebrates, after Croatia's Ivan Perisic, left, scored during the Euro 2020 soccer championship group D match between Croatia and Scotland at the Hampden Park Stadium in Glasgow, Tuesday, June 22, 2021.(AP Photo/Petr David Josek, Pool)
The Latest: South Africa resumes restrictions to fight surge

By The Associated Press Jun. 27, 2021 05:40 AM EDT

An employee of the Federal State Center for Special Risk Rescue Operations of Russia Emergency Situations disinfects a hall of Leningradsky railway station in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, June 24, 2021. Coronavirus infections continue to soar in Russia, with the highest reported new cases and further deaths since late January. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
The Latest: Hawaii to drop rules for vaccinated travelers

By The Associated Press Jun. 24, 2021 06:26 AM EDT

A woman wearing a protective mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus rides a bicycle in the rain Monday, June 14, 2021, in Tokyo. Japan is desperately pushing to accelerate the pace of inoculations before the Tokyo Olympics. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
The Latest: Vaccinated Hawaiian positive for delta variant

By The Associated Press Jun. 14, 2021 02:30 AM EDT

Court says Romania's lockdown didn't amount to house arrest

By Stephen Mcgrath May. 20, 2021 09:33 AM EDT
BUCHAREST (AP) — The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ruled against a member of the European Union parliament who claimed that a lockdown to curb...

Healthcare workers transport to a morgue the body of a patient who died from COVID-19 at Clinicas Hospital in San Lorenzo, Paraguay, Wednesday, May 19, 2021. The Health Ministry reported that a record number of people died from COVID-19 on Tuesday, May 18. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
The Latest: Detroit archbishop ends mask rule for vaccinated

By The Associated Press May. 19, 2021 01:10 AM EDT

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks in front of the 94-foot-long, 21,000-pound model of a blue whale, wearing a bandage, at the COVID-19 vaccination site, in the Milstein Family Hall of Ocean Life, at the American Museum of Natural History, in New York, Friday, April 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
The Latest: Health panel urges restarting J&J vaccinations

By The Associated Press Apr. 23, 2021 12:51 AM EDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020, file photo, Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly receives a COVID-19 vaccine injection in Topeka, Kan. In March 2021, Kelly enacted a law giving legislative leaders power to revoke her emergency orders. Top Republican lawmakers immediately used it to scuttle a Kelly order meant to encourage counties to keep mask mandates in place. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
The Latest: Romanians protest restrictions as cases top 1M

By The Associated Press Apr. 10, 2021 06:10 AM EDT

FILE - In this Sunday, April, 19 2020, file picture Volunteers wearing protective outfits light candles during the Orthodox Easter service, held without any worshipers due to COVID-19 restrictions in Bucharest, Romania. As Romania battles against a surge of COVID-19 infections authorities announced on Thursday March 25, 2021, that Easter celebrations in the deeply Christian country will physically go ahead this year. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
Romania OKs holding Easter celebrations despite virus surge

By Stephen Mcgrath Mar. 25, 2021 05:39 PM EDT

A health worker receives a dose of the Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine at a clinic in Basra, Iraq, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
The Latest: Gov. hopes to up number of Texans getting shots

By The Associated Press Mar. 25, 2021 02:39 AM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2021, file photo, Clarendon Alternative Elementary School second grader Haruki Ishiyama works on his computer as students and parents attend distance learning Zoom classes at Midtown Terrace Playground in San Francisco. San Francisco Unified School District officials said in a statement that they reached the arrangement with the teachers union to "return as many students as possible in focal groups to nearly a full school day, 5 days a week," the Chronicle reported, Friday, March 5. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
The Latest: Arkansas Gov: end of mask mandate at month's end

By The Associated Press Mar. 21, 2021 03:03 AM EDT

Medical staff check an empty ward, reserved for possible COVID-19 patients, at the Colentina Hospital in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. A year ago, Romania reported its first case of COVID-19, prompting the country's strapped medical system to turn its focus to treating COVID-19 patients. As a result, many patients with other conditions — including HIV but also cancer and other illnesses — have either been denied critical care or stopped going to their regular appointments, fearful of becoming infected.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Pandemic leaves many Romanian patients without critical care

By Nicolae Dumitrache And Stephen Mcgrath Feb. 26, 2021 02:18 AM EST

George Simion, one of the leaders of the Alliance for the Unity of Romanians or AUR, speaks to protesters after a deadly fire at a hospital treating COVID-19 patients in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021. Hundreds marched during a protest organized by the AUR alliance demanding the resignation of several top officials, after a fire early Friday at a key hospital in Bucharest that also treats COVID-19 patients killed five people. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Romania: Protesters want reprisals for fatal hospital fire

Jan. 30, 2021 04:19 PM EST

In this photo taken on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021 A Romanian gendarme leaves after getting a COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Bucharest, Romania. Across the Balkans and the rest of the nations in the southeastern corner of Europe, a vaccination campaign against the coronavirus is overshadowed by heated political debates or conspiracy theories that threaten to thwart the process. In countries like the Czech Republic, Serbia, Bosnia, Romania and Bulgaria, skeptics have ranged from former presidents to top athletes and doctors. Nations that once routinely went through mass inoculations under Communist leaders are deeply split over whether to take the vaccines at all. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Vaccine skepticism hurts East European anti-virus efforts

By Dusan Stojanovic And Jovana Gec Jan. 17, 2021 02:45 AM EST

Romanian prime minister-designate Florin Citu gestures, before a parliament session called to vote on a new government team in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. Romania's president Klaus Iohannis appointed on Tuesday, the outgoing finance minister as prime minister-designate after three pro-Western center-right groups joined forces to keep out of power a left-leaning populist party that won most votes at a parliamentary election earlier this month. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Romania's parliament approves new government

By Vadim Ghirda Dec. 23, 2020 12:14 PM EST

Romanian prime minister-designate Florin Citu speaks after his nomination in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. Romania's president on Tuesday appointed the outgoing finance minister as prime minister-designate after three pro-Western center-right groups joined forces to keep out of power a left-leaning populist party that won most votes at a parliamentary election earlier this month. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
Former banker named PM-designate after Romania election

By Vadim Ghirda Dec. 22, 2020 01:07 PM EST

FILE - In this Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020 file photo, Romanian Prime Minister Ludovic Orban and head of the ruling National Liberal party, bottom, comes out of the party headquarters shortly before exit polls in the country's parliamentary elections were announced, in Bucharest, Romania. Romania’s center-right prime minister Ludovic Orban resigned Monday Dec. 7, 2020, after a general election in which voters delivered nominal victory to the left-leaning, populist opposition party. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru, File)
Romania’s center-right prime minister resigns after election

Dec. 07, 2020 07:01 AM EST

A woman wearing a mask for protection against the COVID-19 infection exits a voting cabin in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020. Voting started in Romania's legislative election expected to restore some measure of stability after five years of political and social turbulence with more than 18 million Romanians registered to vote for a new legislative body. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Romanians elect new lawmakers, seek end to political turmoil

Dec. 06, 2020 05:11 AM EST

Valeriu Nicolae, center background, a Romanian Roma human rights activist, who runs as an independent in the upcoming parliamentary elections, sets up a tablet for online schooling for children of a family in a poor area of Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. Romania will hold parliamentary elections on Sunday Dec. 6. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Romania: Election expected to usher in 'European' generation

By Vadim Ghirda And Sabina Niksic Dec. 05, 2020 03:07 AM EST

President Donald Trump speaks from the Blue Room Balcony of the White House to a crowd of supporters, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
The Latest: Brazil's virus death toll surpasses 150,000

By The Associated Press Oct. 10, 2020 05:45 AM EDT

A protester holds a banner that reads "Today's Menu: Unemployment" as hospitality workers protest against the government's decision for the closure of restaurants, cinemas, theatres and hospitality venues in the capital, for a second time, in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. Hundreds of Romanian hospitality workers protested Wednesday evening in the capital, Bucharest, against what they describe as the national government’s failure to protect their industry from the economic fallout of the coronavirus epidemic in the country. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Romanian hospitality workers protest as new lockdown starts

By Andreea Alexandru Oct. 07, 2020 04:38 PM EDT