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The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Romania has surpassed 400,000 since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching 403,123, and the death toll now stands at 9,756, official data showed on Friday.
In the past 24 hours, another 9,272 cases were confirmed and 160 people died, according to the Strategic Communication Group (GCS), Romania’s official COVID-19 communication working group.
Currently, 13,548 COVID-19 patients are hospitalized in specialized health units, and 1,139 of them are in intensive care, the GCS added.
A total of 46,568 people who were infected with the coronavirus are isolated in their homes and another 13,628 are in institutional isolation.
According to the GCS, the capital Bucharest, with a total of 56,015 cases, is currently the administrative district with the highest number of infections in the country, while Sibiu county in the central part of the country has the highest infection rate, 8 , 9 per thousand inhabitants.
So far, nearly 20 cities across the country have implemented 14-day lockdown measures due to the severe pandemic.
The Romanian authorities have imposed a one-month curfew across the country from November 9. Residents are not allowed to leave their homes from 11 pm to 5 am without special circumstances.
Meanwhile, the government has also introduced a number of new preventive and control measures, including expanding the mandatory requirement to wear masks from the original indoor public spaces to all public places.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), masks should be used as part of a comprehensive strategy of measures to suppress the transmission of COVID-19 and save lives.
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreaks, wearing masks in public has been widely accepted in Asian countries such as China, South Korea, Japan, and Vietnam to limit the spread of COVID-19.
