Weekly overview in pictures: Electric Castle festival | COVID cases rise again | RO students shine at International Math Olympiad
This weekly overview brings you the main topics from Romania, in pictures. Electric Castle, one of Romania's most anticipated music events, held a new edition last week. And first numbers say it was a pretty successful event. Meanwhile,…
Irina Marica · Journalist
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This weekly overview brings you the main topics from Romania, in pictures. Electric Castle, one of Romania's most anticipated music events, held a new edition last week. And first numbers say it was a pretty successful event. Meanwhile, Romania switched to daily COVID-19 reports again as infections started rising fast, the Police shut down a cocaine extraction lab, and Romanian students shined at the International Math Olympiad in Oslo. See the photo collection for the July 11-17 week below. (Opening photo: crowd at Electric Castle concert; photo source: Facebook/Electric Castle)
The 2022 edition of Electric Castle, one of the largest music festivals in Romania, took place this past week. According to Stirileprotv.ro, more than 200,000 music fans attended the event, making it the most successful edition so far. This year's headliners included Twenty One Pilots and Gorillaz, but the lineup was made up of many other international and local artists. The organizers already put on sale passes for the 2023 edition without announcing the exact dates. But, given the previous events, it is safe to say that next year's edition will again gather music fans at the Banffy Castle in Transylvania in the summer.
Romania resumed the daily reports on COVID-19 cases last week amid a rapid and robust rise in new infections. Health minister Alexandru Rafila said the number of new cases doubled from one week to the other - from about 7,700 in the week of June 27-July 3 to nearly 15,000 the following week. According to him, the rising trend is estimated to continue in the upcoming 4-5 weeks.
