This episode on Romania was recorded and released on November 9th 2020, when Romania began a second partial lockdown.
The discussions in this episode are an update on a chapter in the report Covid-19 and Democracy, First Cut Policy Analyses: Country Case Studies.
Radu Cinpoes wrote Chapter 3 (pages 37-44) of the report, which examined the political and policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in Romania up to June 30th 2020.
Radu Cinpoes is Head of the Department of Politics, International Relations and Human Rights at Kingston University, London. He has published widely on Romanian politics.
This episode contains some discussion of testing and positivity rates. Some comparative stats on positivity rates can be found here:
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-testing
The COVID-19 and Democracy Podcast is an output of the COVID-19 and Democracy Project, which is based within the Department of Politics, International Relations and Human Rights of Kingston University, London.
Follow: @C19andDemoProj
Original music by Sovereign Heights
