To date, May 17th, in Romania, 16,871 cases of people infected with COVID – 19 virus (coronavirus) have been confirmed. Of the people confirmed positive, 9,890 were declared cured and discharged.
Number of confirmed cases, by counties, according to the report of the National Institute of Public Health:
No. crt. | County | Number of confirmed cases |
1. | Alba | 265 |
2. | Arad | 696 |
3. | Argeș | 210 |
4. | Bacău | 431 |
5. | Bihor | 501 |
6. | Bistrița-Năsăud | 301 |
7. | Botoșani | 659 |
8. | Brașov | 616 |
9. | Brăila | 20 |
10. | Buzău | 105 |
11. | Caraș-Severin | 110 |
12. | Călărași | 73 |
13. | Cluj | 526 |
14. | Constanța | 258 |
15. | Covasna | 228 |
16. | Dâmbovița | 228 |
17. | Dolj | 165 |
18. | Galați | 537 |
19. | Giurgiu | 205 |
20. | Gorj | 90 |
21. | Harghita | 63 |
22. | Hunedoara | 616 |
23. | Ialomița | 321 |
24. | Iași | 366 |
25. | Ilfov | 416 |
26. | Maramureș | 81 |
27. | Mehedinți | 92 |
28. | Mureș | 652 |
29. | Neamț | 834 |
30. | Olt | 53 |
31. | Prahova | 79 |
32. | Satu Mare | 57 |
33. | Sălaj | 75 |
34. | Sibiu | 451 |
35. | Suceava | 3.421 |
36. | Teleorman | 114 |
37. | Timiș | 494 |
38. | Tulcea | 108 |
39. | Vaslui | 146 |
40. | Vâlcea | 27 |
41. | Vrancea | 507 |
42. | Mun. București | 1.636 |
43. | – | 38 |
TOTAL | 16.871 |
At the same time, so far, 1097 people diagnosed with COVID-19 infection, hospitalized in Dolj, Bucharest, Iași, Suceava, Arad, Bacău, Timiș, Cluj, Neamț, Hunedoara, Constanța, Satu Mare, Sibiu, Ialomița, Bistrița- Năsăud, Covasna, Dâmbovița, Vrancea, Galați, Caraș-Severin, Mureș, Giurgiu, Bihor, Argeș, Vaslui, Botoșani, Alba, Sălaj, Brașov, Mehedinți, Teleorman, Gorj, Prahova, Vâlcea, Călărași, Maramure and Maramure they died.
Since the last information sent by the Strategic Communication Group, another 167 new cases of illness have been registered.
At the moment, 205 patients are hospitalized at ATI.
On the Romanian territory, there are 13,055 people in institutionalized quarantine. Another 15,854 people are in solitary confinement at home and are under medical supervision.
To date, 310,407 tests have been processed at national level.
In the last 24 hours, 309 calls were registered to the unique emergency number 112 and 1,614 to the TELVERDE line (0800 800 358), open especially for informing citizens.
Regarding the situation of Romanian citizens in other states, according to information obtained by Romanian diplomatic missions and consular offices abroad, 2,918 Romanian citizens were confirmed to be infected with COVID-19 (coronavirus): 1,698 in Italy, 561 in Spain , 29 in France, 484 in Germany, 86 in the United Kingdom, 28 in the Netherlands, 2 in Namibia, 3 in the USA, 4 in Austria, 3 in Belgium, 6 in Japan, 2 in Indonesia, 2 in Switzerland, 2 in Turkey and one each in Argentina, Tunisia, Ireland, Luxembourg, the United Arab Emirates, Malta, Brazil and Sweden. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) epidemic and until now, 103 Romanian citizens abroad, 31 in Italy, 19 in France, 34 in Great Britain, 8 in Spain, 5 in Germany, 2 in Belgium, one in Sweden, one in Switzerland, one in the USA and one in Brazil, died.
Of the Romanian citizens confirmed with the new coronavirus, 22 were declared cured: 9 in Germany, 9 in France, 2 in Indonesia, one in Luxembourg and one in Tunisia.
We remind citizens to consider only the information verified by official sources and to call for recommendations and other information on the line TELVERDE – 0800.800.358. The TELVERDE number is not an emergency number, it is a telephone line strictly assigned to inform citizens. Also, Romanians abroad can request information about preventing and combating the virus at the line specially dedicated to them, +4021.320.20.20.
Other decisions, as well as other data of interest, will be made public as soon as possible.
Below we present the situation regarding the infection with COVID – 19 virus (Coronavirus) at European and global level:
As of 16 May 2020, 1,295,781 cases have been reported in the EU / EEA, the United Kingdom, Monaco, San Marino, Switzerland, Andorra. Most cases have been reported in Italy, France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom.
COUNTRY
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CONFIRMED CASES | DEAD
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CURED*
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United Kingdom | 236.711 (+3.560) | 33.998 (+384) | 1.058 (+9) |
Spain | 230.183 (+643) | 27.459 (+138) | 146.446 (+1.663) |
Italy | 223.885 (+789) | 31.610 (+242) | 122.810 (+2.605) |
France | 141.919 (+563) | 27.529 (+104) | 60.562 – |
Germany | 173.772 (+620) | 7.881 (+57) | 152.600 (+1.003) |
Source: European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CEPCB) (https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en)
OVERALL SITUATION ON 16th OF MAY 2020
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CONFIRMED CASES | DEAD
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CURED*
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4.503.836 (+98.156) | 307.295 (+5.180) | 1.694.169 (+56.485) |
* according to data published by Johns Hopkins CSSE – https://systems.jhu.edu/
* data in parentheses represent the number of new cases, between May 15th and May 16th, 2020
* The CEPCB states that updates at the national level are published on different time coordinates and subsequently processed, which may generate discrepancies between the daily data published by the states and those published by the CEPCB.
Strategic Communication Group