PRESS RELEASE, Strategic Communication Group, August 17th, 2020, 1 p.m.

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Until today, on August 17th, in Romania, 71.194 cases of people infected with COVID – 19 virus (coronavirus) have been confirmed.

32.759 were declared cured and discharged and 8.072 asymptomatic patients were discharged at 10 days after detection.

Following the tests performed at national level, compared to the last report, 733 new cases of people infected with SARS – CoV – 2 (COVID – 19) were registered, these being cases that had not previously had a positive test. The distribution by counties of the total and new cases can be found in the table below:

No. crt. County Confirmed cases (total) New confirmed cases
1. Alba 910 13
2. Arad 1461 17
3. Argeș 4564 56
4. Bacău 2077 14
5. Bihor 1700 31
6. Bistrița-Năsăud 1020 0
7. Botoșani 1239 2
8. Brașov 3964 32
9. Brăila 1272 45
10. Buzău 1831 21
11. Caraș-Severin 493 0
12. Călărași 417 16
13. Cluj 1650 13
14. Constanța 1333 3
15. Covasna 610 1
16. Dâmbovița 2639 33
17. Dolj 1250 24
18. Galați 2860 20
19. Giurgiu 535 7
20. Gorj 1290 21
21. Harghita 635 4
22. Hunedoara 1365 5
23. Ialomița 884 0
24. Iași 2076 52
25. Ilfov 1787 29
26. Maramureș 824 9
27. Mehedinți 981 10
28. Mureș 1191 7
29. Neamț 1765 1
30. Olt 1075 8
31. Prahova 3244 91
32. Satu Mare 172 0
33. Sălaj 264 0
34. Sibiu 1208 11
35. Suceava 4922 7
36. Teleorman 466 8
37. Timiș 1947 7
38. Tulcea 373 5
39. Vaslui 1261 2
40. Vâlcea 862 42
41. Vrancea 2171 0
42. Bucharest 8543 64
43. – 61 2
 TOTAL 71194

 

 733

Aside from the newly confirmed cases, following the retesting of patients who were already positive, 223 people were reconfirmed positively. The distribution by county of these cases can be found in the table below:

No. crt. County Positive retest results
1 ALBA 3
2 ARAD 16
3 ARGEŞ 15
4 BACĂU 1
5 BIHOR 23
6 BISTRIŢA-NĂSĂUD 2
7 BOTOŞANI 4
8 BRĂILA 4
9 BRAŞOV 0
10 BUZĂU 13
11 CĂLĂRAŞI 1
12 CARAŞ-SEVERIN 0
13 CLUJ 11
14 CONSTANŢA 10
15 COVASNA 0
16 DÂMBOVIŢA 19
17 DOLJ 8
18 GALAŢI 12
19 GIURGIU 1
20 GORJ 18
21 HARGHITA 0
22 HUNEDOARA 0
23 IALOMIŢA 3
24 IAŞI 4
25 MARAMUREŞ 0
26 MEHEDINŢI 11
27 MUREŞ 7
28 NEAMŢ 1
29 OLT 1
30 PRAHOVA 5
31 SĂLAJ 0
32 SATU MARE 0
33 SIBIU 1
34 SUCEAVA 2
35 TELEORMAN 0
36 TIMIŞ 0
37 TULCEA 3
38 VÂLCEA 0
39 VASLUI 0
40 VRANCEA 0
41 BUCHAREST 21
42 ILFOV 3
  TOTAL 223

At the same time, so far, 3029 people diagnosed with COVID-19 died.

Between 16.08.2020 (10:00) – 17.08.2020 (10:00) were registered 38 deaths (21 men and 17 women), of some patients infected with the new coronavirus, hospitalized in Argeș, Bacău, Bihor, Caraș-Severin, Cluj, Constanța, Dâmbovița, Dolj, Galați, Hunedoara, Iași, Prahova, Suceava, Timiș, Tulcea, Ilfov and Bucharest.

Among these, 3 deaths were recorded in the age group 40-49 years, 4 deaths were recorded in the age group 50-59 years, 10 deaths in the age category 60-69 years, 12 deaths in the age category 70-79 years and 9 deaths in the age category over 80 years.

In 36 cases death occurred in patients who had comorbidities.

In the specialized health units, the total number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 is 7.472. Of these, 497 patients are hospitalized at intensive care units.

Until today, 1.520.750 tests have been processed at national level. Of these, 6.390 were performed in the last 24 hours, 4.518 based on the case definition and medical protocol, and 1.872 on request.

Also, since the last information made by GCS, the results of 472 tests processed before the last 24 hours and submitted until August 17th have been reported.

In Romania, 9.604 people confirmed with the new coronavirus are in isolation at home, and 5.509 people are in institutionalized isolation. Also, 26.442 people are quarantined at home, and 192 persons are in institutionalized quarantine.

In the last 24 hours, 660 calls were registered to the unique emergency number 112.

As a result of the violation of the provisions of Law no. 55 of 15.05.2020 regarding some measures for preventing and combating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the police and the gendarmes applied, in the last 24 hours, 1.723   of contravention sanctions, amounting to 456.851 lei.

We remind the citizens that the Ministry of Internal Affairs has operationalized, starting with 04.07.2020, a special telephone line TELVERDE (0800800165) where violations of the sanitary protection norms can be notified.

The calls are taken over by a dispatcher, in an integrated system, and distributed to the territorial structures for the verification of the notified issues.

Regarding the situation of Romanian citizens in other states, 5.902 Romanian citizens were confirmed as infected with COVID-19 (coronavirus): 1,898 in Italy, 572 in Spain, 124 in France, 2.935 in Germany, 157 in Great Britain, 28 in the Netherlands, 2 in Namibia, 4 in the USA, 111 in Austria, 19 in Belgium, 6 in Japan, 2 in Indonesia, 2 in Switzerland, 2 in Turkey, 2 in Iceland, 2 in Belarus, 19 in Greece, 2 in Cyprus and one each in Argentina, Tunisia , Ireland, Luxembourg, the United Arab Emirates, Malta, Brazil, India, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Sweden, Congo Republic Hungary and Qatar. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) epidemic and until now, 123 Romanian citizens abroad, 31 in Italy, 19 in France, 43 in Great Britain, 9 in Spain, 14 in Germany, 2 in Belgium, one in Sweden, one in Switzerland, one in the USA, 1 in Brazil and one in Congo Republic, they died.

Among the Romanian citizens confirmed with the new coronavirus, 338 were declared cured: 308 in Germany, 18 in France, 6 in Japan, 2 in Indonesia, 2 in Namibia, one in Luxembourg and one in Tunisia.

Note: these data are obtained by the Romanian diplomatic missions and consular offices abroad, either from the competent authorities of the states of residence, insofar as these data are subject to public communication, or directly from Romanian citizens abroad.

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 allocated for informing citizens and is valid for national calls from Monday to Friday, between 08.00 and 20.00. 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 available to the public as soon as possible.

Below we present the situation regarding the infection with COVID – 19 virus (Coronavirus) at European and global level:

Until 16th of August 2020, 1.914.629 cases have been reported in the EU / EEA, the United Kingdom, Monaco, San Marino, Switzerland, Andorra. Most cases have been reported in the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, France and Germany.

COUNTRY

 

 CONFIRMED CASES DEAD

 

 CURED*

 
United Kingdom 316.367        –   41.358     (+1)         1.486        –
Spain 342.813        –   28.617        –     150.376        –
Italy 253.438     (+629)   35.392  (+158)     203.786     (+146)
France 215.521  (+3.310)   30.409      (+3)       83.993         –
Germany 223.453     (+625)     9.231        –     201.187     (+431)

Source: European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CEPCB) (https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en)

OVERALL SITUATION ON 16th of AUGUST 2020
CONFIRMED CASES DEATHS

 

 CURED*

 
21.472.570 (+258.921) 766.080 (+5.659) 13.676.869   (+229.281)

* According to data published by Johns Hopkins CSSE – https://systems.jhu.edu/

* Parenthesis data represent the number of new cases, between 15th-14th of August, 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

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