As many as 8,861 new cases of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 were recorded in the last 24 hours, 4,757 more than the previous day, with more than 73,000 tests being carried out, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) reported on Tuesday, Agerpres reports.
Of the new cases, 991 are in patients who are reinfected, tested positive at a period of more than 180 days after the first infection.
As of Tuesday, 1,857,502 cases of infection with the novel coronavirus have been registered in Romania, of which 15,459 are in reinfected patients, tested positive at a period of more than 180 days after the first pass through the disease.
According to GCS, 1,760,487 patients were declared cured.
At the national level, 11,226,970 RT-PCR tests and 6,397,111 rapid antigen tests were processed.
In the last 24 hours, 22,619 RT-PCR tests were performed (11,611 based on case definition and medical protocol and 11,008 on request) and 50,907 rapid antigen tests.
Apart from the newly confirmed cases, following the retesting of patients who were already positive, 468 people were reconfirmed positive with COVID-19.
As many as 43 deaths - 22 men and 21 women - in patients infected with the novel coronavirus have been reported in the last 24 hours, the GCS reported.
Of the 43 deaths, one was recorded in the age category 40 - 49 years, five in the age category 50 - 59 years, seven in the age category 60 - 69 years, nine in the age category 70 - 79 years and 21 in the category of age over 80 years.
According to the GCS, 41 of the deaths were recorded in patients who had a medical history, one deceased patient had no comorbidities, and for another, no comorbidities have been reported so far.
Of the 43 deceased patients, 38 were unvaccinated and five were COVID-19 vaccinated. The five patients vaccinated were aged 50 to 59 years and over 80 years and had comorbidities.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 59,070 people diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection have died in Romania.
As many as 3,023 people infected with SARS-CoV-2 are hospitalized in health facilities, of which 173 are children, GCS said.
According to GCS, 415 patients are hospitalized in the ICU wards, including eight children. Of the patients admitted to intensive care, 30 have a certificate attesting to the anti-COVID vaccination.
According to the data existing in the alerte.ms application, at national level, there are 1,271 ICU beds for COVID-19 patients, of which 311 in Bucharest.
Throughout Romania, 29,721 people confirmed with infection with the novel coronavirus are in isolation at home, and 2,975 in institutional isolation. Also, 47,595 people are in home quarantine and 61 are in institutional quarantine.
The law enforcement staff applied, in the last 24 hours, 1,283 contravention sanctions, totaling 310,850 RON, as a result of violating the provisions of Law 55/2020 on some steps to prevent and combat the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the GCS reported on Tuesday.
Also, through the competent structures of the Police, a criminal file was drawn up for the prevention of diseases, an act provided for and punished by article 352 of the Criminal Code.
The most new cases of infection with SARS-CoV-2 since the last report are in Bucharest - 1,045 and the counties of Suceava - 506, Timis - 456, Brasov - 422, Cluj - 398, Constanta - 397, Bihor - 366, Maramures - 307, the Strategic Communication Group informed on Tuesday.
The county of Cluj remains in the red scenario, having the highest infection rate in the country, at 4.04 cases per thousand inhabitants, which has gone up from the previous day, when it was 3.44.
The Capital City is in the yellow scenario regarding infection rate, having an incidence of 2.97 cases per thousand inhabitants, going up from the previous day, when the registered value was 2.57 per thousand inhabitants.
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