The Romanian government, through the INSP, has published new information about the Delta variant, which is spreading faster and faster in Romania, generating many confirmed cases, but also quite a few deaths from the total number of cases confirmed so far.
The Romanian government shows us why the Delta variant of the Coronavirus is causing concern all over the world at the moment, but also why Romania needs more vaccinated people, 8 out of 10 people confirmed with this new variant being unvaccinated.
"The weekly evolution of the proportion of cases confirmed with the Delta variant from the total number of cases confirmed with VOC has an increasing trend, from a value of 1,5% in S 21, to 13% in S 30. Until August 01, 2021 262 cases with the Delta variant were confirmed.
- 42% (110 cases) are in 56 outbreaks, of which 48 are family (77 cases) and
8 municipalities (33 cases), from 13 counties: Argeș (5), Bacău (3), Brașov (1), Brăila (1), Botoșani (1), Călărași (5), Constanța (2), Dolj (5) ), Ilfov (6), Iasi (10), Olt (1), Teleorman (3), Timiș (2) and the municipality of Bucharest (11). Among the outbreak cases, 8 had travel history to Finland (1), India (3), Italy (1), Spain (1), Turkey (1), UK (1). - 35% (92 cases) have no mentioned epidemiological link;
- 18% (46 sporadic cases) have a history of traveling or staying to work in other countries, of which 20 in the UK, 7 in Spain, 5 in Turkey, 2 in the UAE, 3 in Italy, 2 in Greece, 1 in Bulgaria, 1 in France/Monaco, 1 in Ireland, 1 in the Republic of Moldova, 1 in Tajikistan, 1 is an employee of an international car transport company, 1 is a pilot on international routes.
- 1% (4 cases) had contact outside the family with an identified confirmed case of COVID-19;
- 1% (3 cases) refused to collaborate with DSP;
- 2% (5 cases) could not be contacted by DSP;
- 1% (2 cases) are under investigation;
Of the 262 confirmed cases with the Delta variant, 50 (19%) had been vaccinated: 3 incompletely and 47 fully vaccinated (18% of the total). We remind you that one of the criteria for selecting cases of COVID-19 for
sequencing is vaccination, so that the proportion of vaccinated cases out of the total number of confirmed cases with the Delta variant does not reflect the situation in the general population, but in a selected group. The range between the date of completion of full vaccination and the date of sample collection was 11–175 days, with a mean of 100 days and a median of 101 days.
14 deaths were recorded in confirmed cases with the Delta variant:"
