The number of deaths caused by the coronavirus in Romania is up to 42, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) informs, the last two persons to die being a woman aged 75 and a man aged 82, both from Hunedoara county and having pre-existing medical conditions.
The man aged 72 died on March 25, also in the ICU of the Hunedoara Municipal Hospital, biological samples being extracted the same day and tested positive for COVID-19 at the Infectious Disease Clinical Hospital in Timisoara. The result of tests was communicated on Sunday, March 29. The man also had digestive neoplasm stage 3, with upper digestive hemorrhaging.
Neither of the two persons had a history of travel or known contact with another confirmed case.
Sunday saw the announcement of another six deaths caused by COVID-19, the death toll of the day being presently 8 deaths.