Romanian PM Threatens To Sack Any Emergency Committee Member Skipping Meetings

Boc attended the committee meeting called for by interior minister Dan Nica to see how measures to fight a pandemic are being implemented.

The prime minister assured that authorities are ready and know how to handle a flu pandemic.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday raised the alert to the highest level of six. WHO has declared a swine flu pandemic for the first time in 40 years, after the infections with new AH1H1 flu virus climbed to 27,737 cases in 74 countries, leaving 141 people dead.

Romania has so far confirmed 11 cases of AH1H1 flu.