Carmaker Dacia partially resumes production

Automobile Dacia, Romania's largest company by turnover, restarted parts of its opeartions on Tuesday on a voluntary basis.

The company's Mechanical and Chassis Plant restarted production with a reduced team, while the Assembly Plant did so in two shifts, and workers in both plants will work on a voluntary basis, Renault Romania Group, Dacia's owner, announced in a press statement.

The two plants, both at Mioveni, some 130 km northwest of the capital of Bucharest, will fully restart production from May 4, according to the company.

The carmaker temporarily suspended production from March 19 until April 5 due to the coronavirus pandemic, and then decided to further postpone the resumption of work at the beginning of the month.

The latest official data released on Tuesday showed that 306 new coronavirus cases have been registered in the past 24 hours, bringing the country's total number of infections to 9,242. So far, 482 people died from the disease while 2,153 people have recovered.