Events from the year 2021 in Romania.
Incumbents
President
Prime Minister
Deputy Prime Ministers
President of the Senate
President of the Chamber of Deputies
President of the High Court of Cassation and Justice
Corina Corbu
President of the Constitutional Court
Valer Dorneanu
Events
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Romania
January
1 January – COVID-19 pandemic: The quarantine instated in the municipality of Constanța on 20 November expires on 1 January, at 20:00 EET. 3 January – COVID-19 pandemic: The Matei Balș Institute suspects a person who recently returned to Romania to have the British COVID-19 variant, now known as the Alpha variant. The Ministry of Health says that the variant has not yet been confirmed, since it requires the sequencing of the viral genome, starting from the probes selected after real-time PCR testing is done. The Department for Emergency Situations (, DSU) says that no case has been confirmed on the territory of Romania so far. Two probes are collected from the suspected patient for testing. Romanian doctor Radu Țincu states that the suspected person did not recently go in the United Kingdom. 8 January – COVID-19 pandemic: The identity of the first case with the more contagious British COVID-19 variant is confirmed to be a 27-year-old woman from Giurgiu who showed up with minimal symptomatology at the "Matei Balș" Institute on 3 January, when she was hospitalised. 18 January – COVID-19 pandemic: The National Committee for Emergency Situations () decided to exempt those who had received a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at least 10 days prior to their arrival in Romania from quarantine. It has also decided to release from quarantine the close contacts who had been in quarantine for 10 days, had gotten a negative COVID-19 test result on the 8th day, and did not present specific symptomatology. The people coming from the UK who have a confirmed infection no less than two weeks and no longer than 3 months prior to entering Romania, are not needed to present a COVID-19 test result upon on arrival. Quarantine can be temporarily suspended for essential reasons in the case of the people coming from epidemic risk countries. 26 January: At around 10:40 EET, a man tells the Bucharest Police () that there is an explosive device inside the Bucharest Court of Appeal (). The building is evacuated, and all trials are suspended. Elena Udrea is among the evacuated people, where she was participating in the last term of a trial regarding the financing of the election campaign of then-candidate Traian Băsescu at the 2009 Presidential election. Later that day, the Bucharest Police announces that the bomb threat was a fake one. The trial involving Elena Udrea resumes at 14:00 EET, on the same day. The sitting prosecutor of the National Anticorruption Directorate requests Elena Udrea to be sentenced to prison in the trial regarding the financing of Traian Băsescu's election campaign for the 2009 presidential election. She is accused of instigation to bribe taking and money laundering, which means she could risk up to 12 years in jail. 27 January – A snowstorm in the region of Northern Dobruja disrupts traffic on the A2 motorway and some national roads, as well as electric power and water supply, while 27 train services have been suspended. The orange code was declared in the area between 10:00 and 21:00 EET. 29 January – At about 5:00 EET, a fire breaks out at the Prof. Dr. Matei Balș National Institute for Infectious Diseases of Bucharest. According to secretary of state Raed Arafat, the first emergency call was made at 05:05, and the first crew arrived 8 minutes afterwards. 102 COVID-19 patients were evacuated and transferred to other pavilions of the hospital, or other hospitals from Bucharest. The cause of the fire is still unknown. The death toll of the fire was 17.