A number of 5,697 new cases of persons infected with SARS-CoV-2 were recorded in the past 24 hours, following the processing of 28,099 tests at the national level, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) informed on Saturday, according to AGERPRES.
These are new cases that had no prior positive test, the GCS mentions.
577,446 cases of persons infected with the novel coronavirus have been recorded up to now on Romanian territory, since the beginning of the pandemic.
A number of 477,139 persons were declared cured.
According to the GCS, until this time, at the national level a number of 4,534,197 tests were processed. Of them, 28,099 were processed in the past 24 hours, 18,117 on the basis of the case definition and medical protocol and 9,982 on demand.
Furthermore, since the last informative bulletin of the GCS, the results of another 182 tests processed prior to the past 24 hours were reported.