PRESS RELEASE, Strategic Communication Group, October 9th , 2020, 1 p.m.

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Until today, on October 9th, on the territory of Romania, 148.886 cases of people infected with the new coronavirus (COVID – 19) have been confirmed.

114.792 patients were declared cured.

Following the tests performed at national level, compared to the last report, 3.186 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 Number of confirmed cases (total) Number of newly confirmed cases
1. Alba 2389 106
2. Arad 3091 51
3. Argeș 5749 34
4. Bacău 5459 179
5. Bihor 3965 61
6. Bistrița-Năsăud 1676 20
7. Botoșani 1881 46
8. Brașov 6684 50
9. Brăila 2628 37
10. Buzău 2996 28
11. Caraș-Severin 1629 68
12. Călărași 957 14
13. Cluj 4194 129
14. Constanța 3539 69
15. Covasna 1407 27
16. Dâmbovița 4479 52
17. Dolj 3441 130
18. Galați 4742 122
19. Giurgiu 1269 17
20. Gorj 2223 41
21. Harghita 1273 48
22. Hunedoara 2678 48
23. Ialomița 1438 15
24. Iași 6296 181
25. Ilfov 3858 63
26. Maramureș 2433 32
27. Mehedinți 1522 15
28. Mureș 2274 72
29. Neamț 3922 77
30. Olt 2140 38
31. Prahova 6619 108
32. Satu Mare 872 23
33. Sălaj 1003 46
34. Sibiu 2662 70
35. Suceava 7082 94
36. Teleorman 1754 59
37. Timiș 4720 94
38. Tulcea 1053 16
39. Vaslui 3565 49
40. Vâlcea 2870 147
41. Vrancea 2882 31
42. Mun. București 21434 579
43. – 138 –
 TOTAL 148.886

 

 3.186

The counties in which the coefficient of infections cumulated at 14 days, reported per 1,000 inhabitants, is above the threshold of 1.5 are the following:

  • București – 2,28
  • Alba – 1,98
  • Vâlcea -1,98
  • Iași – 1,80
  • Bacău – 1,72
  • Teleorman – 1,62
  • Neamț – 1,62
  • Vaslui – 1,59

Apart from the newly confirmed cases, following the retesting of patients who were already positive, 653 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 24
2 ARAD 8
3 ARGEŞ 5
4 BACĂU 27
5 BIHOR 13
6 BISTRIŢA-NĂSĂUD 1
7 BOTOŞANI 4
8 BRĂILA 11
9 BRAŞOV 23
10 BUZĂU 4
11 CĂLĂRAŞI 11
12 CARAŞ-SEVERIN  
13 CLUJ 37
14 CONSTANŢA 19
15 COVASNA 4
16 DÂMBOVIŢA 12
17 DOLJ 18
18 GALAŢI 12
19 GIURGIU 10
20 GORJ 33
21 HARGHITA 8
22 HUNEDOARA 10
23 IALOMIŢA 1
24 IAŞI 30
25 MARAMUREŞ 6
26 MEHEDINŢI 14
27 MUREŞ 3
28 NEAMŢ 17
29 OLT 16
30 PRAHOVA 29
31 SĂLAJ 3
32 SATU MARE 8
33 SIBIU 25
34 SUCEAVA 56
35 TELEORMAN 8
36 TIMIŞ 17
37 TULCEA 3
38 VÂLCEA 11
39 VASLUI 22
40 VRANCEA 1
41 BUCUREŞTI 83
42 ILFOV 6
  TOTAL 653

Until today, 5.299 people diagnosed with COVID-19 infection have died.

Between 08.10.2020 (10:00) – 09.10.2020 (10:00)  there were registered 52 deaths (24 men and 28 women), of some patients infected with the new coronavirus, hospitalized in din Alba, Arad, Argeș, Bacău, Botoșani, Brăila, Brașov, Caraș-Severin, Constanța, Dâmbovița, Dolj, Harghita, Hunedoara, Iași, Mureș, Olt, Prahova, Sălaj, Sibiu, Suceava, Tulcea, Vaslui, Vrancea, Ilfov and Bucharest.

Among these, 4 deaths were recorded in the age category 40-49 years, 5 deaths were recorded in the age category 50-59 years, 16 deaths in the age category 60-69 years, 13 deaths in the age category 70-79 years and 14 deaths in the over-80 category.

In 51 cases death occurred in patients who had comorbidities, and in tone case the patient had not presented comorbidities.

In the specialized health units, the total number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 is 8.772. Of these, 613 are hospitalized at intensive care.

Until today, 2.627.544 tests have been processed at national level. Of these, 29.282 were performed in the last 24 hours, 17.286 based on the case definition and medical protocol and 11.996 on request.

In Romania, 12.935 people confirmed with the new coronavirus infection are in isolation at home, and 8.418 people are in institutional isolation. Also, 27.009 people are in quarantine at home, and in institutionalized quarantine there are 9 persons.

In the last 24 hours, 2.164 calls were registered to the unique emergency number 112 and 1.438 calls at TELVERDE 0800 800 358, a telephone line strictly assigned to inform.

As a result of the violation of the provisions of Law no. 55 of 15.05.2020 on some measures to prevent and combat the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the police and gendarmes applied, in the last 24 hours, 4.519  sanctions for minor offenses, amounting to 708.995 lei.

Also, through the competent structures of the Police, 2 crimes were found yesterday, regarding the  thwart the fight against diseases, a crime 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, 6.777 Romanian citizens were confirmed as infected with COVID-19 (coronavirus): 1,917 in Italy, 1,253 in Spain, 124 in France, 2.999 in Germany, 159 in Great Britain , 28 in Netherlands, 2 in Namibia, 4 in USA, 122  in Austria, 21 in Belgium, 6 in Japan, 2 in Indonesia, 8 in Switzerland, 3 in Turkey, 2 in Iceland, 2 in Belarus, 93 in Greece, 9 in Cyprus, 2 in India, 2 in Ukraine, 7 in UAE and one each in Argentina, Tunisia, Ireland, Luxembourg, 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 died, 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.

Among the Romanian citizens confirmed with the new coronavirus, 797 were declared cured: 677 in Germany, 90 in Greece, 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.

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

As of  October 6 th , 3.782.334 cases have been reported in the EU / EEA, the United Kingdom, Monaco, San Marino, Switzerland, Andorra. Most cases have been reported in the Spain, France, United Kingdom, Italy and Germany.

 

COUNTRY

 

 CONFIRMED CASES  

DEAD

 

  

CURED*

 
Spania 835.901  (+10.491)   32.562   (+76)     150.376          –
Franţa 653.509  (+18.746)   32.445   (+80)     102.542     (+481)
Regatul Unit 544.275  (+14.162)   42.515   (+70)         2.474       (+49)
Italia 333.940    (+3.677)   36.061   (+31)     236.363  (+1.060)
Germania 310.144    (+4.058)     9.578   (+16)     271.960  (+2.238)

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

OVERALL SITUATION ON 8th  of OCTOBER  2020
CONFIRMED CASES DEAD CURED*
36.194.764  (+346.510) 1.053.961  (+5.780) 25.462.447   (+225.337)   

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

* the data in parentheses represent the number of new cases, between October 7th  –October 8th 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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