PRESS RELEASE, Strategic Communication Group, August 6th, 2020, 1 p.m.

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Until today, on August 6th, in Romania, 57.895 cases of people infected with COVID – 19 virus (coronavirus) have been confirmed.

28.992 were declared cured and discharged and 5.639 asymptomatic patients were discharged at 10 days after detection.

Following the tests performed at national level, compared to the last report, 1.345 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 784 4
2. Arad 1191 19
3. Argeș 3804 99
4. Bacău 1661 38
5. Bihor 1141 35
6. Bistrița-Năsăud 927 6
7. Botoșani 1192 4
8. Brașov 3468 55
9. Brăila 991 29
10. Buzău 1465 39
11. Caraș-Severin 350 21
12. Călărași 336 6
13. Cluj 1368 36
14. Constanța 1082 28
15. Covasna 512 24
16. Dâmbovița 2138 46
17. Dolj 875 36
18. Galați 2399 68
19. Giurgiu 439 3
20. Gorj 978 30
21. Harghita 584 10
22. Hunedoara 1074 24
23. Ialomița 784 11
24. Iași 1637 28
25. Ilfov 1423 30
26. Maramureș 542 20
27. Mehedinți 835 13
28. Mureș 1030 7
29. Neamț 1455 24
30. Olt 848 21
31. Prahova 2373 102
32. Satu Mare 116 2
33. Sălaj 208 6
34. Sibiu 994 28
35. Suceava 4656 23
36. Teleorman 397 12
37. Timiș 1500 68
38. Tulcea 312 2
39. Vaslui 801 28
40. Vâlcea 576 32
41. Vrancea 1895 36
42. Bucharest 6701 192
43. – 53 –
 TOTAL 57895

 

 1345

Aside from the newly confirmed cases, following the retesting of patients who were already positive, 737 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 2
2 ARAD 17
3 ARGEŞ 60
4 BACĂU 20
5 BIHOR 11
6 BISTRIŢA-NĂSĂUD 28
7 BOTOŞANI 9
8 BRĂILA 26
9 BRAŞOV 25
10 BUZĂU 18
11 CĂLĂRAŞI 6
12 CARAŞ-SEVERIN 0
13 CLUJ 34
14 CONSTANŢA 13
15 COVASNA 2
16 DÂMBOVIŢA 21
17 DOLJ 7
18 GALAŢI 15
19 GIURGIU 3
20 GORJ 25
21 HARGHITA 18
22 HUNEDOARA 4
23 IALOMIŢA 0
24 IAŞI 23
25 MARAMUREŞ 4
26 MEHEDINŢI 12
27 MUREŞ 5
28 NEAMŢ 25
29 OLT 7
30 PRAHOVA 16
31 SĂLAJ 4
32 SATU MARE 0
33 SIBIU 38
34 SUCEAVA 21
35 TELEORMAN 0
36 TIMIŞ 31
37 TULCEA 2
38 VÂLCEA 11
39 VASLUI 33
40 VRANCEA 19
41 BUCHAREST 115
42 ILFOV 7
  TOTAL 737

At the same time, so far, 2.566 people diagnosed with COVID-19 died.

Between 5.08.2020 (10:00) – 6.08.2020 (10:00) were registered 45 deaths (28 men and 17 women), of some patients infected with the new coronavirus, hospitalized in Arad, Argeș, Bacău, Bihor, Bistrița-Năsăud, Brăila, Caraș-Severin, Cluj, Constanța, Covasna, Dâmbovița, Gorj, Hunedoara, Iași, Maramureș, Mehedinți, Mureș, Olt, Prahova, Teleorman, Timiș, Vaslui and Bucharest.

Among these,  2 deaths were recorded in the age group 40-49 years, 2 deaths in the age group 50-59 years, 19 deaths in the age category 60-69 years, 10 deaths in the age category 70-79 years and 12 deaths in the age category over 80 years.

In 44 cases death occurred in patients who had comorbidities.

In the specialized health units, the total number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 is 7.961. Of these, 458 patients are hospitalized at intensive care units.

Until today, 1.319.369 tests have been processed at national level. Of these, 24.147 were performed in the last 24 hours, 14.887 based on the case definition and medical protocol, and 9.260 on request.

In Romania, 5.607 people confirmed with the new coronavirus are in isolation at home, and 5.078 people are in institutionalized isolation. Also, 19.362 people are quarantined at home, and 178 persons are in institutionalized quarantine.

In the last 24 hours, 990 calls were registered to the unique emergency number and 729 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, 966 of contravention sanctions, amounting to 202.555 lei.

Also, through the competent structures of the Police, 3 crime was 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, 5.612 Romanian citizens were confirmed as infected with COVID-19 (coronavirus): 1,891 in Italy, 570 in Spain, 124 in France, 2.672 in Germany, 157 in Great Britain, 28 in the Netherlands, 2 in Namibia, 4 in the USA, 111 in Austria, 3 in Belgium, 6 in Japan, 2 in Indonesia, 2 in Switzerland, 2 in Turkey, 2 in Iceland, 2 in Belarus, 18 in Greece, 2 in Cyprus and one each in Argentina, Tunisia , Ireland, Luxembourg, the United Arab Emirates, Malta, Brazil, India, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Sweden and Congo Republic. 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, 189 were declared cured: 159 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 5th of August 2020, 1 768 393 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 306.293       (+670)   46.299   (+89)         1.446       (+1)
SpaIN 302.814   (+14.292)   28.498   (+26)     150.376         –
Italy 248.419       (+190)   35.171     (+5)     200.976     (+210)
France 192.334     (+1.039)   30.296     (+2)       82.298     (+534)
Germany 212.022       (+741)     9.168   (+12)     194.868     (+695)

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

OVERALL SITUATION ON 5th of AUGUST 2020
CONFIRMED CASES DEATHS

 

 CURED*

 
18.519.579 (+256.037) 700.539 (+6.813) 11.361.941  (+278.941)

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

* Parenthesis data represent the number of new cases, between 5th-6th 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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