PRESS RELEASE, Strategic Communication Group, August 15th, 2020, 1 p.m.

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Until today, on August 15th, in Romania, 69.374 cases of people infected with COVID – 19 virus (coronavirus) have been confirmed.

32.334 were declared cured and discharged and 7.814 asymptomatic patients were discharged at 10 days after detection.

Following the tests performed at national level, compared to the last report, 1.328 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 893 25
2. Arad 1411 11
3. Argeș 4450 70
4. Bacău 2043 53
5. Bihor 1619 58
6. Bistrița-Năsăud 1016 13
7. Botoșani 1229 2
8. Brașov 3881 33
9. Brăila 1213 16
10. Buzău 1763 46
11. Caraș-Severin 492 16
12. Călărași 393 12
13. Cluj 1618 32
14. Constanța 1305 28
15. Covasna 602 4
16. Dâmbovița 2565 31
17. Dolj 1198 56
18. Galați 2806 55
19. Giurgiu 521 10
20. Gorj 1257 22
21. Harghita 631 5
22. Hunedoara 1333 19
23. Ialomița 874 3
24. Iași 1977 36
25. Ilfov 1709 49
26. Maramureș 794 21
27. Mehedinți 965 8
28. Mureș 1172 10
29. Neamț 1732 40
30. Olt 1049 34
31. Prahova 3057 83
32. Satu Mare 159 9
33. Sălaj 259 9
34. Sibiu 1182 19
35. Suceava 4891 29
36. Teleorman 458 11
37. Timiș 1930 76
38. Tulcea 355 5
39. Vaslui 1258 24
40. Vâlcea 767 31
41. Vrancea 2162 10
42. Bucharest 8325 202
43. – 60 2
 TOTAL 69374

 

 1328

Aside from the newly confirmed cases, following the retesting of patients who were already positive, 469 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 20
2 ARAD 18
3 ARGEŞ 15
4 BACĂU 26
5 BIHOR 5
6 BISTRIŢA-NĂSĂUD 1
7 BOTOŞANI 4
8 BRĂILA 0
9 BRAŞOV 25
10 BUZĂU 1
11 CĂLĂRAŞI 2
12 CARAŞ-SEVERIN 5
13 CLUJ 35
14 CONSTANŢA 7
15 COVASNA 3
16 DÂMBOVIŢA 10
17 DOLJ 2
18 GALAŢI 2
19 GIURGIU 1
20 GORJ 18
21 HARGHITA 8
22 HUNEDOARA 5
23 IALOMIŢA 0
24 IAŞI 20
25 MARAMUREŞ 3
26 MEHEDINŢI 18
27 MUREŞ 4
28 NEAMŢ 16
29 OLT 15
30 PRAHOVA 20
31 SĂLAJ 2
32 SATU MARE 9
33 SIBIU 17
34 SUCEAVA 9
35 TELEORMAN 5
36 TIMIŞ 9
37 TULCEA 1
38 VÂLCEA 3
39 VASLUI 10
40 VRANCEA 14
41 Bucharest 73
42 ILFOV 8
  TOTAL 469

At the same time, so far, 2954people diagnosed with COVID-19 died.

Between 14.08.2020 (10:00) – 15.08.2020 (10:00) were registered 50 deaths (32 men and 18 women), of some patients infected with the new coronavirus, hospitalized in Alba, Argeș, Bacău, Bihor, Bistrița-Năsăud, Brăila, Brașov, Buzău, Călărași, Caraș-Severin, Dâmbovița, Dolj, Galați, Gorj, Hunedoara, Maramureș, Olt, Prahova, Sibiu, Timiș, Tulcea, Vâlcea, Vrancea,Ilfov and Bucharest.

Among these, 2 deaths were recorded in the age group 40-49 years, 7 deaths in the age group 50-59 years, 17 deaths in the age category 60-69 years, 17 deaths in the age category 70-79 years and 7 deaths in the age category over 80 years.

In 47 cases death occurred in patients who had comorbidities.

In the specialized health units, the total number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 is 7.309. Of these, 485 patients are hospitalized at intensive care units.

Until today, 1.502.042 tests have been processed at national level. Of these, 23.986 were performed in the last 24 hours, 14.239 based on the case definition and medical protocol, and 9.747 on request.

In Romania, 9.091people confirmed with the new coronavirus are in isolation at home, and 5.479people are in institutionalized isolation. Also, 26.702people are quarantined at home, and 26 persons are in institutionalized quarantine.

In the last 24 hours, 1.112 calls were registered to the unique emergency number and 620 to TELVERDE (0800 800 358).

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, 968 of contravention sanctions, amounting to 362.001 lei.

Also, through the competent structures of the Police, 5 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 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 14th of August 2020, 1 885 729 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 313.798          –   46.706       –         1.481        (+2)
Spain 337.334    (+7.550)   28.605    (+26)     150.376         –
Italy 252.235     (+522)   35.231     (+6)     203.326     (+403)
France 209.365    (+2.669)   30.388    (+17)       83.993     (+381)
Germany 221.413   (+1.449)     9.225     (+14)     200.648     (+994)

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

OVERALL SITUATION ON 14th of AUGUST 2020
CONFIRMED CASES DEATHS

 

 CURED*

 
20.900.777 (+286.763) 759.358 (+9.914) 13.279.527   (+284.004)

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

* Parenthesis data represent the number of new cases, between 13th-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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