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As many as 34,255 new cases of persons infected with SARS-CoV-2 were registered in the last 24 hours and 94 deaths were reported, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) informed on Wednesday.
This is an absolute record of number of infections since the beginning of the pandemic in Romania.
From the previous day, the number of COVID-19 cases nationwide has almost doubled.
Since the beginning of this year, in the context of the Omicron variant occurring, the number of cases registered an accelerated increase from one day to another.
New cases of COVID-19 since the beginning of the year and until now:
- January 1 - 1,451 new cases of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 and 27 casualties, including one previous;
- January 2 - 958 new cases and 17 casualties;
- January 3 - 1,756 new cases of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 and 18 casualties;
- January 4- 3,900 new cases and 52 casualties, including 5 prior;
- January 5- 4,893 new cases and 30 casualties, including 6 prior;
- January 6 - 6,018 new cases and 44 casualties;
- January 7 - 5,922 new cases and 31 casualties;
- January 8 - 6,036 new cases and 26 casualties;
- January 9 - 4,712 new cases and 14 casualties;
- January 10 - 4,104 new cases and 16 casualties;
- January 11 - 8,861 new cases of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 and 43 casualties;
- January 12 - 8,600 new cases and 44 casualties;
- January 13 - 9,785 new cases and 36 casualties;
- January 14 - 9,884 new cases and 30 casualties;
- January 15 - 10,062 new cases and 32 casualties, including 3 prior;
- January 16 - 7,595 new cases and 28 casualties;
- January 17 - 8,118 new cases and 17 casualties;
- January 18 - 16,760 new cases and 70 casualties, including 5 prior;
- January 19 - 16,610 new cases and 58 casualties, including 2 prior;
- January 20 - 19,105 new cases and 43 casualties, including 4 prior;
- January 21 - 19,649 new cases and 49 casualties;
- January 22 - 19,371 new cases and 48 casualties, including 4 prior;
- January 23 - 14,088 new case and 22 casualties;
- January 24 - 12,082 cases and 41 casualties, including one prior;
- January 25 - 19,685 new cases and 44 casualties;
- January 26 - 34,255 new cases and 94 casualties;
In Bucharest, COVID incidence rate has also grown significantly since the beginning of the year until now.
Thus, if on January 1, infection rate with SARS-CoV-2 was 0.72 per thousand inhabitants, on January 12 it exceeded 3.32, and since then it has grown at an accelerated rate. On January 18 incidence reached 6.15 and kept increasing, registering on Wednesday an infection rate of 11.71 per thousand inhabitants.
