The COVID-19 incidence rate calculated at 14 days continues to increase
There are again over 16,600 new cases of coronavirus infection and 58 associated deaths. Two of them are older. At the moment, no more details are known about the epidemic situation, such as the number of tests performed and the number of hospitalized persons, information that will be made public after 13:00. Meanwhile, the COVID incidence rate calculated at 14 days continues to rise. In the Capital, today it rose to 6.69 cases per thousand inhabitants, after a week ago Bucharest entered the red scenario, with three per thousand. Incidents above this threshold are reported in half of the counties. (RADIO ROMANIA NEWS)
Romania launches National Cancer Plan
The National Cancer Plan will be launched on Wednesday afternoon, in an event that will take place at Cotroceni Palace, in the presence of President Klaus Iohannis. In February last year, the European Commission launched the European Cancer Plan, which allocates € 4 billion to fund prevention, research and treatment programs within the Union. In our country, at the level of the Parliament, a working group was created to fight cancer, which aimed at transposing the European plan into Romanian legislation. Romania currently has a national cancer program at the National Health Insurance House, through which part of the treatments and tests are settled, as well as some prevention programs at the level of the Ministry of Health. (RADIO ROMANIA NEWS)
Increases testing capacity to identify SARS-CoV-2 infection
Testing capacity to identify SARS-CoV-2 infection will increase, and by the end of next week more than 100,000 tests would be performed daily, Health Minister Alexandru Rafila said at the opening of the government meeting. He explained that over 2,300 family doctors already have contracts with the County Health Insurance Houses and have started testing in their own offices. The increase in the number of tests will implicitly lead to the detection of several infected people, the minister added. (RADIO ROMANIA NEWS)/aboboc
Adelina Boboc – RADOR
