Romania-related events from the year 2022
Events from the year 2022 in Romania.
Incumbents
Ongoing events
Events
January
- 3 January – After the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) criticized government plans for introduction of sex education and the history of the Holocaust in the school curriculum, PNL deputy Alexandru Muraru demanded for the outlawing of the party, submitting penal complaints on the party's co-presidents, George Simion and Claudiu Târziu.
- 11 January – COVID-19 pandemic: The National Institute of Public Health (INSP) announces that all criteria for nationwide community transmission of the Omicron variant were met.
- 12 January – The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) begins negotiations with the PNL, the party from which it split in 2014, for a potential merge between the two parties.
- 13 January:
- A police car, going fast inside locality, hits two girls aged 11 and 13, respectively, who were crossing a street in Sector 1 of Bucharest. The latter subsequently died.
- COVID-19 pandemic: The National Committee for Emergency Situations (CNSU) adopts Decision no. 3/2022, which lets schools operate normally (i.e. with physical presence of students) regardless of their vaccination rate and the locality's incidence rate, as long as the grade of occupation of hospital beds reserved for COVID-19 patients (in the county in which the school is located) stays below 75%.
- 20 January – General strike at Societatea de Transport București (STB) leads to metro crowding and traffic jam in Bucharest, while the STB fleet of buses, trolleybuses and trams remains unused. The strike continued despite being suspended by the Bucharest Court.
- 22 January – COVID-19 pandemic: The total number of cases nationwide exceeds 2 million.
- 26 January:
- 28 January – Marcel Boloș was sworn in as Minister of Digitalisation for the Ciucă Cabinet. He succeeded Florin Roman, who resigned over a month prior.
February
Predicted and scheduled events
Date unknown
Deaths
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