A total of 136 cases of infection with the new British SARS-Cov-2 mutation - the B.1.1.7 lineage, have been confirmed as of Friday, the Health Ministry announced.
"The Health Ministry was notified by the National Public Health Institute - the National Center for Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases that 136 cases of infection with the new British SARS-Cov-2 mutation - the B.1.1.7 lineage have been confirmed so far in Romania," a release states.
The said cases have been confirmed out of a total of 499 sequenced samples reported so far to the National Center for the Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases.