The 5th wave would have already reached a plateau phase, according to Raed Arafat, the head of the DSU, stating that there seems to be a tendency to decrease the number of new cases during this period, but the authorities are still waiting to see how things evolve in the next period.
"As I said at the beginning and Secretary of State Baciu also said, on February 3, last week, we had 32.671 cases. Today, February 10, there are 26.466, so it is the first time that we come with a figure that shows a downward trend in the number of daily cases; of course we went through big numbers, over 35.000 cases, but now we are, as I said, at 26.000.
If we compare some days of the week with the identical days of the following week, if we compare, for example, Monday this week with last Monday, Tuesday with last Tuesday, they all show a downward trend.
Patients in ATI; however, it is a figure that continues to grow and the reason is clear: because the cases that have tested positive are catching up, some may still have the Delta variant, people who are vulnerable and end up in intensive care. On the 3rd of February we had 993 cases, and on the 10th we have 1.146 cases in intensive care units."
