PRESS RELEASE, Strategic Communication Group, September 16th , 2020, 1 p.m.

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Until today, on September 16th, in Romania, 107,011 cases of people infected with the new coronavirus (COVID – 19) have been confirmed.

Data on the number of people declared cured is currently unavailable due to technical updates in the reporting system and data centralization application. This data will be communicated as soon as possible as soon as it becomes available.

Following the tests performed at national level, compared to the last report, 1,713 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 cases and of the new ones can be found in the table below:

No. crt. County Number of confirmed cases (total) Number of newly confirmed cases
1. Alba 1415 40
2. Arad 2263 26
3. Argeș 5302 16
4. Bacău 3618 42
5. Bihor 3097 54
6. Bistrița-Năsăud 1342 17
7. Botoșani 1472 16
8. Brașov 5252 35
9. Brăila 2097 23
10. Buzău 2584 10
11. Caraș-Severin 1025 23
12. Călărași 683 7
13. Cluj 2615 99
14. Constanța 2172 60
15. Covasna 989 25
16. Dâmbovița 3556 32
17. Dolj 2258 58
18. Galați 3690 32
19. Giurgiu 920 9
20. Gorj 1762 8
21. Harghita 843 11
22. Hunedoara 1980 34
23. Ialomița 1089 3
24. Iași 3927 71
25. Ilfov 2745 65
26. Maramureș 1640 53
27. Mehedinți 1276 11
28. Mureș 1609 12
29. Neamț 2683 41
30. Olt 1603 55
31. Prahova 5101 84
32. Satu Mare 467 20
33. Sălaj 529 20
34. Sibiu 1834 39
35. Suceava 5973 91
36. Teleorman 860 20
37. Timiș 3218 65
38. Tulcea 695 16
39. Vaslui 2390 56
40. Vâlcea 1700 83
41. Vrancea 2550 17
42. Mun. București 14072 211
43. – 115 3
                                       TOTAL 107.011

 

 1.713

Apart from the newly confirmed cases, following the retesting of patients who were already positive, 714 people were reconfirmed positively. The distribution by county of these cases can be found in the table below:

No. crt. County Positive results at retest
1. Alba 7
2. Arad 6
3. Argeș 11
4. Bacău 37
5. Bihor 21
6. Bistrița-Năsăud 5
7. Botoșani 5
8. Brașov 13
9. Brăila 24
10. Buzău 9
11. Caraș-Severin 15
12. Călărași 2
13. Cluj 15
14. Constanța 6
15. Covasna 6
16. Dâmbovița 26
17. Dolj 13
18. Galați 9
19. Giurgiu 7
20. Gorj 6
21. Harghita 12
22. Hunedoara 8
23. Ialomița  
24. Iași 73
25. Maramureș 12
26. Mehedinți 2
27. Mureș 6
28. Neamț 29
29. Olt 7
30. Prahova 25
31. Satu Mare 3
32. Sălaj 9
33. Sibiu 33
34. Suceava 17
35. Teleorman 40
36. Timiș 13
37. Tulcea 7
38. Vaslui 39
39. Vâlcea 4
40. Vrancea 10
41. Mun. București 101
42. Ilfov 21
                                       TOTAL 714

Until today, 4,285 people diagnosed with COVID-19 infection have died.

Between 15.09.2020 (10:00) – 16.09.2020 (10:00) were registered 49 deaths (33 men and 16 women), of some patients infected with the new coronavirus, hospitalized in Alba, Arad, Argeș , Bacău, Bihor, Bistrița-Năsăud, Brăila, Buzău, Covasna, Dâmbovița, Dolj, Galați, Gorj, Hunedoara, Ialomița, Iași, Maramureș, Neamț, Prahova, Sălaj, Suceava, Tulcea, Vaslui, Vrancea and Bucharest.

Among these, 3 deaths were recorded in the age category 40-49 years, 4 deaths were recorded in the age category 50-59 years, 16 deaths in the age category 60-69 years, 15 deaths in the age category 70 -79 years and 11 deaths in the category of over 80 years.

All 49 deaths were from comorbidities.

In the specialized health units, the total number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 is 6,854. Of these, 471 are hospitalized at ATI.

Until today, 2,136,544 tests have been processed at national level. Of these, 25,991 were performed in the last 24 hours, 16,542 based on the case definition and medical protocol and 9,449 on request.

Also, since the last information made by GCS, the results of 529 tests processed before the last 24 hours and submitted until September 16 have been reported.

In Romania, 11,164 people confirmed with infection with the new coronavirus are in isolation at home, and 5,782 people are in institutional isolation. Also, 37,206 people are in quarantine at home, and 8 people are in institutionalized quarantine.

In the last 24 hours, 1,157 calls were registered to the unique emergency number 112 and 563 to the TELVERDE line (0800 800 358), open especially for informing citizens.

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 gendarmes applied, in the last 24 hours, 435 sanctions for minor offenses, amounting to 59,601 lei.

Also, through the competent structures of the Police, a crime was found yesterday for thwarting the fight against diseases, a deed provided and punished by art. 352 Penal Code.

We remind the citizens that the Ministry of Internal Affairs has operationalized, starting with 04.07.2020, a TELVERDE line (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, 6,599 Romanian citizens were confirmed as infected with COVID-19 (coronavirus): 1,905 in Italy, 1,253 in Spain, 124 in France, 2,935 in Germany, 159 in Great Britain , 28 in Netherlands, 2 in Namibia, 4 in USA, 111 in Austria, 20 in Belgium, 6 in Japan, 2 in Indonesia, 2 in Switzerland, 3 in Turkey, 2 in Iceland, 2 in Belarus, 19 in Greece, 5 in Cyprus, 2 in India, 2 in Ukraine and one each in Argentina, Tunisia, Ireland, Luxembourg, the United Arab Emirates, Malta, Brazil, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Sweden, the Republic of the Congo, Hungary and Qatar. From the beginning of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) epidemic until now, 126 Romanian citizens abroad, 31 in Italy, 19 in France, 43 in Great Britain, 11 in Spain, 14 in Germany, 2 in Belgium, one in Sweden, one in Switzerland, one in the USA, one in Brazil, one in the Republic of Congo and one in Greece, have 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 assigned 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.

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

Until 15th of September 2020, 2,641,450 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 371.125    (+2.621)   41.637     (+9)         2.184       (+32)
Spain 593.730  (+27.404)   29.848 (+101)     150.376          –
Italy 288.761    (+1.008)   35.624   (+14)     214.645     (+695)
France 387.252    (+6.158)   30.950   (+34)       90.816     (+384)
Germany 261.762    (+1.407)     9.362   (+12)     235.112  (+1.095)

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

OVERALL SITUATION ON 15th of SEPTEMBER 2020

 
CONFIRMED CASES DEAD

 

 CURED*

 
29.309.546  (+260.412) 928.890  (+4.184) 20.079.169   (+216.478)   

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

* the data in parentheses represent the number of new cases, between September 14th and 15th, 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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