More than 42.000 cases of respiratory infections have been reported by the Romanian authorities
More than 42.000 cases of respiratory infections have been reported by authorities in a report last week. However, The National Center for Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases states that the number is half that recorded in the same period last year. By the end of last week, more than 146.000 people at risk had been vaccinated against the flu, with doses distributed by the Ministry of Health./opopescu
Prime Minister Ludovic Orban is confident that the increase in the number of COVID cases can be stopped
Prime Minister Ludovic Orban is confident that the increase in the number of COVID cases can be stopped in 7 to 10 days after the last measures were implemented. In a television show last night, he said that the government is not aiming for a lockdown, but is constantly looking for a balance in the measures it has taken, between the priority of protecting public health and the need for people to have jobs. Ludovic Orban announced that the Ministry of Health is preparing a normative act to relieve hospitals of asymptomatic patients./opopescu
The incidence of COVID infections in Bucharest, close to three per thousand inhabitants
Yesterday was the second day during which over 4.000 new cases of COVID-19 were registered in Romania. A new record of patients admitted to Intensive Care units was reached, 721, and the number of deaths associated with the new coronavirus was 73. Most diseases were also registered in the capital, 777, and in Cluj and Iași counties there were over 200 cases. In Bucharest, the coefficient of infections cumulated at 14 days was of 2,89 cases per thousand inhabitants, yesterday. The Strategic Communication Group announced that when calculating this indicator, the population considered is approximately 2.197.000 inhabitants. Therefore, the authorities in the capital are preparing for the all schools to pass to the „red scenario”, and the Police announced the increase of controls on complying the protection measures./opopescu
