UPDATE 4: Unfortunately, we start the day with a new death announced by the Romanian authorities, number 8.
"This morning, the eighth death of a patient infected with the new coronavirus was recorded.
It is about a 70-year-old man, hospitalized at the Craiova Clinical Hospital for Infectious Diseases, confirmed positive on 19.03.2020. The patient arrived on 07.03.2020/19.03.2020/XNUMX from Italy together with his daughter, who is currently in self-isolation. The patient was hospitalized on XNUMX at SCBI Craiova with respiratory failure, being admitted to the hospital's ATI department. He suffered from pre-existing diseases for which he was being treated with insulin. Also, the patient had grade II obesity."
UPDATE 3: Death number 7 (the fourth in the last 24 hours) was confirmed by the country's authorities.
"This evening, the seventh death of a patient infected with the new coronavirus was recorded.
It is about a 65-year-old man, hospitalized at Bucharest University Hospital, confirmed positive on 21.03.2020. The patient required dialysis and there was salon contact with another dialysis patient, confirmed with COVID 19 on 20.03.2020 and who was transferred to the Victor Babeș Hospital for Infectious Diseases where he died."
UPDATE 2: The number of dead people rose to 6 today, according to an announcement by the authorities.
"The 6th death of a person infected with the new coronavirus (COVID-19) was recorded. The person is a 64-year-old man from Arad, who was hospitalized since March 20th in a serious condition at the Arad County Hospital, intubated in the ATI department. The man died during the day today and also on this day he was confirmed positive in the test for the new coronavirus."
UPDATE: Unfortunately, the authorities have announced a fifth death in Romania due to the new Coronavirus.
"The fifth case of death of a person infected with the new coronavirus (COVID-19) was registered. It is a man, 71 years old, from Suceava, confirmed positive on 23.03.2020, admitted to the Suceava County Hospital on 21.03.2020.
The person was previously hospitalized in the cardiology ward where contact is possible with the patient transferred to the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Iași."
The coronavirus has infected 576 people in Romania so far, compared to yesterday being the biggest increase so far, 143 cases, and a new death was announced by the authorities, the situation starting to become serious and in our country, within a few days registering all these deaths.
The coronavirus started to spread in Romania from people who came from abroad and lied to avoid isolation/quarantine, people infected by others, people who are infected without knowing, and without having gone somewhere, the chain of infection entering now in the most dangerous phase.
The good part is that 73 people have already been declared cured, an increase of 9 compared to yesterday, but unfortunately we are talking about a sudden increase in the number of new cases, probably because the testing capacity in Romania has increased.
Almost 80.000 people are in quarantine, or isolation at home, and these numbers are constantly increasing because more and more people are returning to the country, probably enough of them infected, and this will lead to a continuous increase in the number of cases .
"Until today, March 23, 576 cases of people infected with the COVID-19 virus (coronavirus) have been confirmed in Romania. Of the 576 people confirmed positive, 73 were declared cured and discharged (51 in Timișoara, 17 in Bucharest, 3 in Craiova, one in Constanța and one in Iași).
Until today, March 23, 4 people diagnosed with infection with COVID-19 and with pre-existing chronic diseases, admitted to hospitals in Bucharest, Craiova Iași and Suceava, have died.
Since the last information sent by the Strategic Communication Group, another 143 new cases of illness have been registered.
One of the cases is that of a prisoner who, on March 11, was transported from the Capital Police to the Bucharest-Jilava Penitentiary Hospital for medical problems. Following the testing carried out today, March 23, he was diagnosed positive with the new coronavirus (COVID-19). We specify that the detainee has been isolated since the moment of incarceration, and the test carried out on March 11 this year, to detect a possible infection with COVID-19, the result was negative.
The newly confirmed patients range in age from 5 to 76 years.
At the moment, 15 patients are admitted to ATI, of which 7 are in serious condition. The health status of the other patients is good, stable.
On the territory of Romania, there are 5.066 people in institutionalized quarantine for whom checks are carried out to find out if they have contacted the COVID-19 virus (coronavirus). Another 72.247 people are in isolation at home and are under medical monitoring.
Until this date, at the national level, 11.223 tests have been processed, of which 277 in private medical units.
In the last 24 hours, 1.073 calls were registered to the single emergency number 112 and 5.134 to the TELVERDE line (0800 800 358), opened specifically for informing citizens.
Until now, 141 criminal files have been drawn up by the authorized structures of the MAI, under the aspect of committing the crime of thwarting the fight against diseases, an act provided for and punished by art. 352 para. 1 Criminal Code. At the same time, the Police and Gendarmerie applied 665 contraventional sanctions for non-compliance with isolation/quarantine measures.
Also, on the occasion of the entry formalities into the country, the Border Police drew up 4 criminal files, in which 18 people are investigated, under the aspect of committing the crime of falsifying statements, an act provided for and punished by art. 326 Criminal Code.
We remind citizens to consider only information verified through official sources and to call for recommendations and other information on the TELVERDE line – 0800.800.358. The TELVERDE number is not an emergency number, it is a telephone line dedicated strictly to informing citizens. Also, Romanians abroad can request information about preventing and combating the virus at the line specially dedicated to them +4021.320.20.20."
