PRESS RELEASE, Strategic Communication Group, August 7th, 2020, 1 p.m.

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Until today, on August 7th, 59.273  cases of people infected with COVID – 19 virus (coronavirus) have been confirmed in Romania.

29.289 were declared cured and 5.897 asymptomatic patients were discharged at 10 days after detection.

Following the tests performed at national level, compared to the last report, 1.378 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 794 10
2. Arad 1221 30
3. Argeș 3900 96
4. Bacău 1716 55
5. Bihor 1194 53
6. Bistrița-Năsăud 941 14
7. Botoșani 1195 3
8. Brașov 3547 79
9. Brăila 1005 14
10. Buzău 1493 28
11. Caraș-Severin 370 20
12. Călărași 338 2
13. Cluj 1398 30
14. Constanța 1113 31
15. Covasna 523 11
16. Dâmbovița 2224 86
17. Dolj 921 46
18. Galați 2439 40
19. Giurgiu 439 –
20. Gorj 1023 45
21. Harghita 589 5
22. Hunedoara 1089 15
23. Ialomița 787 3
24. Iași 1668 31
25. Ilfov 1451 28
26. Maramureș 556 14
27. Mehedinți 854 19
28. Mureș 1054 24
29. Neamț 1483 28
30. Olt 862 14
31. Prahova 2483 110
32. Satu Mare 123 7
33. Sălaj 214 6
34. Sibiu 1017 23
35. Suceava 4681 25
36. Teleorman 404 7
37. Timiș 1544 44
38. Tulcea 320 8
39. Vaslui 831 30
40. Vâlcea 595 19
41. Vrancea 1921 26
42. Mun. București 6900 199
43. – 53 –
 TOTAL 59273

 

 1378

Aside from the newly confirmed cases, following the retesting of patients who were already positive, 605 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 20
3 ARGEŞ 48
4 BACĂU 15
5 BIHOR 14
6 BISTRIŢA-NĂSĂUD 4
7 BOTOŞANI 3
8 BRĂILA 17
9 BRAŞOV 35
10 BUZĂU 16
11 CĂLĂRAŞI 6
12 CARAŞ-SEVERIN 0
13 CLUJ 28
14 CONSTANŢA 13
15 COVASNA 1
16 DÂMBOVIŢA 15
17 DOLJ 10
18 GALAŢI 8
19 GIURGIU 4
20 GORJ 12
21 HARGHITA 15
22 HUNEDOARA 1
23 IALOMIŢA 1
24 IAŞI 19
25 MARAMUREŞ 0
26 MEHEDINŢI 14
27 MUREŞ 6
28 NEAMŢ 29
29 OLT 6
30 PRAHOVA 50
31 SĂLAJ 3
32 SATU MARE 0
33 SIBIU 34
34 SUCEAVA 9
35 TELEORMAN 9
36 TIMIŞ 3
37 TULCEA 5
38 VÂLCEA 5
39 VASLUI 2
40 VRANCEA 5
41 MUNICIPIUL BUCUREŞTI 104
42 ILFOV 13
TOTAL 605

At the same time, so far, 2.616 people diagnosed with COVID-19 died.

Between 6.08.2020 (10:00) – 7.08.2020 (10:00) were registered 50 deaths (31 men and 19 women), of some patients infected with the new coronavirus, hospitalized in Alba, Arad, Argeș, Bacău, Bihor, Bistrița-Năsăud, Botoșani, Brăila, Brașov, Cluj, Dâmbovița, Galați, Gorj, Harghita, Hunedoara, Iași, Maramureș, Mehedinți, Prahova, Sibiu, Timiș, Vâlcea, Vaslui, Ilfov and Bucharest.

Among these, 4 deaths were recorded in the age group 40 – 49 years, 4 deaths were recorded in the age group 50-59 years, 11 deaths in the age category 60-69 years, 17 deaths in the age category 70-79 years and 14 deaths in the age category over 80 years.

In all cases, death occurred in patients who had comorbidities.

In the specialized health units, the total number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 is 7.801. Of these, 446 patients are hospitalized at intensive care units.

Until today, 1.343.315 tests have been processed at national level. Of these, 23.946 were performed in the last 24 hours, 14.276  based on the case definition and medical protocol, and 9.670  on request.

In Romania, 6.076 people confirmed with the new coronavirus are in isolation at home, and 5.031 people are in institutionalized isolation. Also, 20.210 people are quarantined at home, and 170 persons are in institutionalized quarantine.

In the last 24 hours, 1.027 calls were registered to the unique emergency number 112 and 737 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 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, 942 sanctions, amounting to 561.425 lei.

Also, through the competent structures of the Police, three crimes ware 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, Congo Republic and Qatar. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) epidemic and until now, 123 Romanian citizens abroad died: 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.

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 6th of August 2020, 1 780 002 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 307.184       (+891)   46.364   (+65)         1.447       (+1)
Spain 305.767     (+2.953)   28.499     (+1)     150.376         –
Italy 248.803       (+384)   35.181   (+10)     201.323     (+347)
France 194.029     (+1.695)   30.305     (+9)       82.592     (+294)
Germany 213.067     (+1.045)     9.175    (+7)     195.645     (+777)

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

OVERALL SITUATION ON 6th of AUGUST 2020
CONFIRMED CASES DEATHS

 

 CURED*

 
18.793.522 (+273.943) 707.715 (+7.176) 11.551.370 (+189.429)

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

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