Coronavirus Romania: New Cases, Cures Announced on August 5, 2020

UPDATED: President Klaus Iohannis holds a press conference regarding the Coronavirus pandemic and the start of school in September.

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The cases of Coronavirus in Romania continue to remain at a very high level, with over 1200 announced yesterday, after on Monday we had the first drop below 1000 new cases, that's right, and with less than half of the usual number of processing tests .

The number of deaths registered yesterday was a record since the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic and until now, as well as the number of people hospitalized in intensive care, the authorities trying to rapidly expand the number of beds available in the country.

Unfortunately, the Coronavirus pandemic continues to affect Romania more and more because people do not respect the rules of social distancing, and this leads to an increase in the number of infections every day, and the situation will not change soon.

"Until today, August 5, on the territory of Romania, 56.550 cases of people infected with the new coronavirus (COVID-19) have been confirmed.

28.584 patients were declared cured and 5.370 asymptomatic patients were discharged 10 days after detection.

Following the tests carried out at the national level, compared to the last report, 1.309 new cases of people infected with SARS - CoV - 2 (COVID - 19) were registered, these being cases that have not previously had a positive test. The distribution of total cases and new cases by county can be found in the table below.

 

No. crt.	County	Number of confirmed cases (total)	Number of newly confirmed cases
1.	Alba	780	14
2.	Arad	1172	30
3.	Arges	3705	98
4.	Bacau	1623	57
5.	Bihor	1106	59
6.	Bistrita-Nasaud	921	17
7.	Botosani	1188	1
8.	Braşov	3413	91
9.	Braila	962	19
10.	Buzau	1426	35
11.	Caras-Severin	329	14
12.	Calarasi	330	10
13.	Cluj	1332	38
14.	Constanta	1054	30
15.	Covasna	488	19
16.	Dambovita	2092	49
17.	Dolj	839	10
18.	Galaţi	2331	42
19.	Giurgiu	436	2
20.	Gorj	948	39
21.	Harghita	574	14
22.	Hunedoara	1050	26
23.	Ialomiţa	773	5
24.	Iaşi	1609	25
25.	Ilfov	1393	26
26.	Maramures	522	20
27.	Mehedinti	822	11
28.	Mureş	1023	9
29.	German	1431	38
30.	Olt	827	27
31.	Prahova	2271	76
32.	Satu Mare	114	2
33.	Salaj	202	7
34.	Sibiu	966	11
35.	Suceava	4633	34
36.	Teleorman	385	5
37.	Timis	1432	58
38.	Tulcea	310	8
39.	Vaslui	773	46
40.	dale	544	11
41.	Vrancea	1859	32
42.	Municipality of Bucharest	6509	143
43.	-	53	1
TOTAL		56550	1309

 

Distinct from the newly confirmed cases, following retesting of patients who were already positive, 922 people were reconfirmed positive. The distribution of these cases by county can be found in the table below.

 

No. crt.	COUNTY	POSITIVE TESTS ON RE-TEST
1	Alba	6
2	Arad	19
3	Arges	76
4	Bacau	22
5	Bihor	13
6	Nasaud Bistro	9
7	Botosani	10
8	Brasov	49
9	Braila	42
10	Buzau	6
11	Caras Severin	0
12	Calarasi	8
13	Cluj	27
14	Constanta	26
15	Covasna	4
16	Dambovita	40
17	Dolj	15
18	Galati	37
19	Giurgiu	3
20	Gorj	23
21	Harghita	7
22	Hunedoara	1
23	Ialomita	0
24	Iasi	34
25	Maramures	2
26	Mehedinti	32
27	Mures	8
28	Neamt	29
29	Olt	21
30	Prahova	62
31	Satu Mare	7
32	Salaj	0
33	Sibiu	11
34	Suceava	51
35	Teleorman	17
36	Timis	7
37	Tulcea	5
38	Vaslui	0
39	Valcea	4
40	Vrancea	47
41	Bucharest	116
42	Ilfov	26
	Total	922

 

To date, 2.521 people diagnosed with COVID-19 have died.

In the interval 04.08.2020 (10:00) - 05.08.2020 (10:00) 41 deaths (28 men and 13 women) of patients infected with the new coronavirus, hospitalized in hospitals in Arad, Argeș, Bacău were recorded .

Of these, 2 deaths were registered in the age category 40-49 years, 1 death in the age category 50-59 years, 11 deaths in the age category 60-69 years, 17 deaths in the age category 70-79 years and 10 deaths in the over 80 category.

40 of the registered deaths are of patients who had comorbidities, and for one death no comorbidities were reported.

In specialized health facilities, the total number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 is 7.919. Of these, 464 patients are admitted to ATI.

Until this date, at the national level, 1.295.222 tests have been processed. Of these, 24.108 were performed in the last 24 hours, 15.956 based on the case definition and the medical protocol, and 8.152 on request. Also, since the last information provided by GCS, the results of 2.215 tests processed prior to the last 24 hours and transmitted until August 5 have been reported.

On the territory of Romania, 5.568 people confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus are in isolation at home, and 4.736 people are in institutional isolation. Also, 18.710 people are in home quarantine, and 174 people are in institutionalized quarantine.

In the last 24 hours, 962 calls were registered to the single emergency number 112 and 777 to the TELVERDE line (0800 800 358), opened specifically for informing citizens.

As a result of the violation of the provisions of Law no. 55 of 15.05.2020 regarding some measures to prevent and combat the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the police and gendarmes applied, in the last 24 hours, 834 contraventional sanctions, in the amount of 167.970 lei.

Also, through the competent structures of the Police, yesterday, 2 crimes were detected for thwarting the fight against diseases, an act provided for and punished by art. 352 Criminal Code.

We remind the citizens that the Ministry of Internal Affairs operationalized, starting on 04.07.2020, a TELVERDE line (0800800165) where violations of health protection rules can be reported."