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VI Discrimination-related issues in Romania reflected in international reports

2021 | ACTIVITY REPORT

                         here the key conclusions of this report in relation to       Impact of pandemic situation on fundamental
                         Romania, as these emerge from its chapters.                  rights during everyday life

                         Emergency measures: the impact on                            HEALTH
                         fundamental rights                                           Physical access to doctors and health services, including
                         Starting from the spring of 2020, in order to limit          hospitals, was limited, at least in the beginning of the
                         the spread of the virus, most of the EU Member               pandemic crisis. The non-urgent medical treatment,
                         States, Romania included, formally declared a state          including surgeries, was postponed quite often. In
                         of emergency or used some other equivalent of an             Romania, the number of hospitalized patients with
                         emergency legislation.                                       cancer declined by 46% between 2019 and 2020.

                         This affected the fundamental rights and allowed the         The pandemic situation exerted a serious pressure
                         governments to impose restrictions with an impact            over health workers, threatening their right to life and
                         on freedom of movement, including on travelling              the right to health. A number of COVID-19 hospitals
                         within EU and inside the countries, on the freedom           in Romania temporarily suspended their activity,
                         of assembly, on the right to private and family life,        as many of the health workers were either sick or
                         on the right of access to goods and services or on           placed under quarantine.
                         the right to work and run a business, among others.

EDUCATION

                         Throughout 2020, Romania notified, based on ar-              Almost all EU Member States closed down their
                         ticle 15 ECHR, that it exercises its right to apply a        school until the end of March 2020. This led to an
                         temporary exemption from the obligations enshrined           unprecedented switch to the on-line education, in           74
                         in the Convention.                                           order to ensure continuity to the educational process.