Romania's President Klaus Werner Iohannis arrives for the second day of a special European Council summit in Brussels on Feb 21, 2020, held to discuss the next long-term budget of the European Union. (LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP / POOL)

BUCHAREST - Romanian President Klaus Iohannis announced on Monday that professional athletes will be able to resume training camps starting May 15, soon after the end of the state of emergency in the country.

"Performance athletes will be able to start training camps in very special conditions, which will be detailed by specialists, but will not start sports competitions until after a sufficiently long period of training," the president said after announcing that May 14 will be the last day of the state of emergency and the country will enter a state of alert from May 15, a level lower than the current one.

Performance athletes will be able to start training camps in very special conditions, which will be detailed by specialists, but will not start sports competitions until after a sufficiently long period of training

Klaus Iohannis, President, Romania

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Iohannis specifically pointed out that the sports facilities would not reopen for amateurs for now.

"It is possible to go out, for example, for individual sports, for cycling," he said, noting "the restriction remains that meetings with more than three people are prohibited."

None of Romania's national and Olympic teams have made centralized preparations since mid-March, when the Ministry of Youth and Sports ordered to stop all sports training and competitions amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Romania entered on March 16 a one-month state of emergency, which was subsequently extended by one more month to May 14.

The eastern European country added 431 and 349 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on Sunday and Monday respectively. The latest total number of confirmed cases reached 13,512 and fatalities rose to 803.